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– Evidence from changes in the occupational structure of employment in the USA and Mexico
The decline of employment in middle-wage, routine task intensive jobs has been well documented for the USA. Increased offshoring towards lower-income countries such as Mexico has been proposed as a potential driver of this decline. Our analysis provides a unique and new approach to address the...
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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...
Income inequality is the result of complex processes with multiple interacting driving forces but understanding those drivers in emerging economies is particularly difficult because of data and analytical challenges. While most middle-income countries produce comprehensive household surveys these...
As with many other developed and emerging economies, in recent decades Mexico has experienced a long-term decline in the labour income share. The decline is observed in both the share of wages in value added and in more comprehensive measures that include the labour income of the self-employed. What...
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– 1990–2015
This paper studies the decline of the labour share in Mexico during the period 1990–2015. It calculates the wage share and alternative measures of the labour income share (which includes labour income of the self-employed) for the whole economy, the private business sector, and its major economic...
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
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In this paper I examine the trend in income inequality and poverty among the self-employed workers in Mexico over the last two decades (1984–2002). This is the period over which Mexico opened its economy to the global market through trade and investment liberalization. For the first decade following...
Book Chapter
– Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico
From the book:
Spatial Inequality and Development
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– Trade Liberalization and Regional Growth in Mexico
The paper analyses the impact trade liberalization and economic integration have had on regional growth and regional disparities in Mexico over the last two decades. It is highlighted that the passage from an import substitution system to membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
Book Chapter
– The Case of the Mexican Automobile Industry
From the book:
Transnational Corporations and the Global Economy
Journal Article
Part of Journal Special Issue
Sustainable Development
– Problems and possibilities
Case studies of five countries uncover serious potential difficulties in maintaining the pace of manufacturing for export in the developing countries, and shows that there is no simple relationship between import liberalization and manufacturing for export.
Book Chapter
– Sustainability Issues in Mexico's Trade Policy Reform
From the book:
Manufacturing for Export in the Developing world
Book Chapter
– A Reconsideration of Past Policies and Assessment of Current Reforms
From the book:
Trade Policy and Industrialization in Turbulent Times
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