This paper studies the effects of capital and labor mobility on real wages across Mexican states for the period 1997-2006. Employing dynamic panel data methods, we find: (1) strong positive effects on real wages from foreign direct investment (FDI) and from migration; (2) domestic and foreign...

This note presents wide evidence on the relationship between population and income for 125 countries for which data was available for the period 1950-2000. The main result is that there is a weak but negative relationship between population growth and per capita GDP, as income increases...

The wage premium between skilled and unskilled workers in Mexican maquiladoras has moved up, from 4.14 in January 1990 to 4.79 in March 2006. This 16 per cent increase in wage differentials favouring skilled workers is contrasted to a measure of relative labour supplies within a model of...