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– Supply vs demand factors
This study estimates the relative importance of alternative supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labor-force participation (FLFP) over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of FLFP in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shaped, with a considerable acceleration...
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– Evidence from Mexican municipalities
Part of Journal Special Issue
Clientelist Politics and Development
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– Evidence from Latin American countries
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Women’s Work
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– The nature of informal employment in urban Mexico
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What sustains informality
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– Evidence from Mexican informal and formal workers
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What sustains informality
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– The Case of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme
This paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. The switch from cash payments to electronic payments delivered via savings accounts is found to have medium-term effects on...
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– 1990–2015
This article is currently available on early view. The paper studies the decline of the labor income share (LIS) in Mexico during the period 1990–2015. The decline is mostly explained by reductions within the economy’s major sectors (including manufacturing, tradables, and non-tradables) rather than...
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– A transition model for Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera program
The effects of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. However, there is limited knowledge on how a CCT should respond to the dynamics of poverty. How should program administrators treat beneficiaries that exit poverty in period t-1, but exhibit a high...
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– Analyzing income distribution changes for the case of Mexico
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Inequality
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– Electoral Outcomes of Mexico's Certification Program
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Land and Property Rights
Improved household accessibility to credit is a significant determinant of intra-household allocation of labor resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status. However, credit accessibility could also have wider impacts on poverty if it leads to new hires outside...
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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– 1940-2000
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Symposium on Spatial Inequality in Latin America
Many developing and transition countries have considerable regional variation in average household income, poverty, and in health and educational status. National human development indicators can therefore mislead policy-makers when large regional disparities exist. This project will investigate the...
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Developing Countries in the WTO Regime
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