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Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …
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of total household inequality in Mexico is attributable to incomes derived from entrepreneurial activities, an income … Mexico during the 1990s. Moreover, the proportion of inequality attributable to education endowments increases during stable …
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effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was to help induce Wal-Mart to enter Mexico. Once there, Walmex … and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an increasing share …
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Improved competitiveness is at the top of the agenda for Mexico as it moves to leverage economic progress made over the … in Mexico. They use four indicators of trade facilitation: port efficiency, customs environment, regulatory environment … it to the case of Mexico. The formula brings the below-average countries in the group half-way to the average for the …
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Mexico experienced a pronounced increase in the degree of inequality and earnings inequality over the 1980s and mid …
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A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...
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Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade …
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in a unique context: Mexico's Drug War. The analysis takes advantage of a unique data set containing inequality and crime … between 2006 and 2010. There are no significant effects before 2005. The fact that the effect was found during Mexico's Drug …
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studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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