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Race and marriage in the labor market: a discrimination correspondence study in a developing country
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial ...
¿Quiénes son los NiNis en México?
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
The objetive of this article is to characterize the population between 15 and
29 years old who does not attend school and does not work (NiNi, as they
are know in Mexico). We used data from the 1990, 2000 and 2010 Cesuses
of ...
How does explicit discrimination in job ads interact with discrimination in Callbacks?: evidence from a correspondence study in Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Economicas, División de Economía, 2015)
Job ads often narrow their searches using gender or age requirements. These narrow searches
do not rule out the existence of post-application discrimination. We test for such biases using
a correspondence experiment in ...
Drug-related violence and forced migration from Mexico to the United States
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
When President Felipe Calderón took office he declared a war on drug lords,
thus initiating a war of attrition which has claimed more than 40,000 lives in
the last 5 years. In this paper I document how this escalation ...
Does the effect of pollution on infant mortality differ between developed and developing countries?: evidence from Mexico City
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2012)
Most estimates of the relationship between pollution and mortality come from developed country data. However, these may not be externally valid to the developing world. Using data from Mexico, we find that an increase of ...
Teenage pregnacy in Mexico: evolution and consequences
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2011)
We analyze the consequences of a teenage pregnancy event in the short and
long-run in Mexico. Using longitudinal and cross-section data, we match
females who got pregnant and those that did not based on a propensity
score. ...
Evolución de la brecha salarial de género en México
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2013)
El artículo analiza la brecha salarial de género en México para el periodo 1990-2010 utilizando los Censos de Población. En promedio, la brecha salarial ha disminuido en el periodo. En 2010, la brecha salarial de género ...
Job search, social interactions and labor market performance of low-skilled immigrants
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2010)
In the last two decades, economists have recognized that immigrants make
extensive use of their immigrant networks when deciding to migrate and
during their stay in the host country. A way in which immigrants utilize ...