We evaluate the impact of the rise in food prices during 2006-2008 on the poverty and extreme poverty rates in Mexico. We concentrate on the poor's consumption of staple foods, and analyze the change in their consumption brought about by changed prices. We also allow households receiving income...

This paper analyzes changes in labor force participation in the Metropolitan Area of Monterrey, Mexico, between 1976 and 1996. A life cycle model is used to decompose the changes in participation rates into parametric and evolutionary changes. The fall in real wages in Monterrey during this...

This paper analyzes the impact on the Mexican economy of burdens on firms, in particular those imposed by the Federal Labor Law and the Income Tax Law, whose burdens depend on the size of the firm. It is used a general equilibrium model; it starts from an equilibrium without distortions and...

This study analyzes the effect that the availability of resources and remittances have on household healthcare expenditure, as well as its intra-household allocation, a topic that has barely been explored in the case of Mexico. Using a Tobit model and GLS, we find that health is a luxury good,...

We estimate cross and direct elasticities for food products in Mexico. We consider Mexico's most consumed goods, which are tortillas, meat, chicken, milk, eggs, onion, chili pepper, kidney beans, soft drinks, and water. We find that using the methodology of Deaton to estimate elasticities...

Este trabajo estudia la relación entre los ingresos del trabajo de los padres y de sus hijos, poniendo especial énfasis en la educación y en la elección de ser empresarios, auto-empleados o empleados, y se capturan los efectos de la heterogeneidad mediante la formación de grupos de ingreso...

This paper studies Mexican poverty levels by state during the 1992-2002 period, in order to evaluate the effect that the business cycle and governmental policies have had on poverty levels. We find that behind the business cycle and the urban poverty are inversely related and that institutional...

En este trabajo estudiamos la relacion entre victimizacion y pobreza, particularmente si la pobreza incrementa o disminuye la probabilidad de ser victima de un delito. Los datos utilizados corresponden a la Encuesta Socioeconomica de Victimizacion y Violencia (ENVVI) 2009. Utilizando un modelo...

This paper studies the relationship between the labor market earnings of parents and their children, with a particular emphasis on education. We incorporate heterogeneity of levels of income in two ways: first, by examining the transmission mechanism of family income by grouping households...

This paper analyzes the effects of a firm-size dependent law, on the Mexican economy which includes a small taxpayers' regime known in Mexico as the Repecos regime. It looks for effects on macroeconomic variables and on the industrial structure, on the proportion of small firms in the economy,...