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Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder : Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth

Voicu, Alexandru - 2021

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...

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The NAFTA Tide : Lifting the Larger and Better Boats

Calderón Madrid, Angel - 2008

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants' responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...

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Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s

Calderón Madrid, Angel; Voicu, Alexandru - 2021

This paper analyzes the performance of Mexican manufacturing firms following trade liberalization within a very specific institutional setting: The North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA). We compare plants' productivity growth and patterns of job creation and destruction across their...

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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico

Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased …

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NAFTA and drug-related violence in Mexico

Hidalgo, Eduardo; Hornung, Erik; Selaya, Pablo - 2022

We study how NAFTA changed the geography of violence in Mexico. We propose that this open border policy increased …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013399561

Trade Liberalization and Productivity : A Panel Study of the Mexican Manufacturing Industry

Iscan, Talan - 1998

and growth rates. Special attention is paid to the comprehensive trade liberalization policies implemented in Mexico after …

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Trade liberalization, consumption shifting and pollution: evidence from Mexico's used vehicle imports

Chen, Liang; Garcia-Medina, Cecilia; Wan, Rui - 2022

Mexico, which impacts air pollution emissions caused by automobile driving in Mexico. Using a unique database on vehicle … registration in Mexico and imports after the NAFTA enactment, we find that Mexico's used vehicle imports reduced average pollution … Mexico. …

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An Environmental Justice Critique of Comparative Advantage : Indigenous Peoples, Trade Policy, and the Mexican Neoliberal Economic Reforms

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2013

The free market reforms adopted by Mexico in the wake of the debt crisis of the 1980s and in connection with the North … American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) have jeopardized the physical and cultural survival of Mexico’s indigenous peoples …, increased migration to the United States, threatened biological diversity in Mexico, and imposed additional stress on the …

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On Price Liberalization, Poverty and Shifting Cultivation : An Example from Mexico

Pascual, Unai; Barbier, Edward - 2008

. The model is calibrated with household level and agroecological data from Yucatan, Mexico. Besides the direct effect of … the liberalization of maize prices, the results indicate that changes in real wages in post-NAFTA Mexico may have non …

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Liberalizing Climate-Friendly Goods and Technologies in the WTO : Product Coverage, Modalities, Challenges and the Way Forward

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2009

The Doha Round Agenda (paragraph 31(3)) mandates to liberalize environmental goods and services. This mandate offers a good opportunity to put climate-friendly goods and services on a fast track to liberalization. Agreement on this paragraph should represent one immediate contribution that the...

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