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data requirements while still meeting international guidelines. Our results suggest housing wealth in Mexico has followed …Housing is the greatest asset held by most households, and it is an important determinant of their financing and … consumption decisions. Despite the fact that measuring housing wealth is crucial for understanding households' economic behavior …
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outcomes than non-Hispanic Whites. This phenomenon is known as the Hispanic Health Paradox. Using data from Mexico and the … United States, we examine several health outcomes for non-Hispanic Whites and Mexicans in the United States and in Mexico and …While typically socioeconomically disadvantaged, Mexican migrants in the United States tend to have better health …
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This paper applies a stochastic frontier approach to analyze the evolution of technical efficiency in manufacturing as a source of regional growth, taking as a unit of analysis the Mexican states in the period 1988-2008. The main findings of our analysis are threefold. First, technical...
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I study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the formal employment of entrants from each post-Great Recession year. Using longitudinal Mexican social security records and an individual fixed-effects difference-in-differences design, I find that the pandemic caused more recent entrants from...
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have access to child care because their job is covered by Mexico's social security system (IMSS). The roll-out of EI was so …
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In this paper we examine some economic factors that have influenced migration flows from Mexico to the United States …
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significant reduction of school attendance. -- Child labor ; International migration ; Remittances ; Mexico. …
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Between 2004 and 2018, the spread of wages in Mexico's private labor sector remained stable. Nonetheless, the …-employee dataset comprising the near-universe of Mexico's formal employment. We estimate log wage models and decompose earnings …
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This document studies the effect of the homicide rate on internal migration in Mexico. Reduced form evidence shows that …
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