Drug-related violence in Mexico and its effects on employment

Coronado, Roberto; Saucedo, Eduardo

doi:10.1007/s00181-018-1458-z

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“…To solve this issue, we followed a two-stage instrumental variable (IV) approach where we build a contemporary crime rate (kidnapping and homicide) instrument using its lagged value and the set of exogenous independent variables. Our selection of an instrument is consistent with other works, such as Grossman (1982), Hanson's (2001) and more recently Coronado and Saucedo (2018).…”

Section: Unitary Changes In Crime Ratesupporting

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“…The authors also mention that economic diversification is more intense in metropolitan areas, while in rural municipalities employment in service activities is more focused on personal and distribution services. Coronado and Saucedo (2018) examine the effects of drug-related crimes on employment in Mexico at the state level during the period 2005-2014. Results indicate that high-skilled employment is more sensitive to an increase in drug-related violence than low-skilled employment.…”

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“…In addition, a potential econometric problem might be the endogeneity of the crime rates. In this case, if error terms in equations ( 1) and (2) are not correlated along the panel and in time, then following Grossman (1982), Hanson's (2001) more recently Coronado and Saucedo (2018), the lagged value of the crime rate by locality in combination with other exogenous independent variables are used to build a valid instrument, as we discuss in the next section.…”

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Crime and Employment Destruction in Mexico: Do Firms Size and Location Matter?

Moreno¹,

Saucedo²

2020

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We study the effects of homicide and kidnapping rates on firms' employment losses, identifying metropolitan and non-metropolitan localities in Mexico. We use a panel dataset for 32 sub-national states organized on a quarterly basis over the period 2011:Q1-2016:Q4, decomposed by locality population size and firm workforce size, including self-employment, micro, small, medium and large firms. Our results indicate that crime has a negative impact on employment across all localities but has a robust negative effect on employment in micro and small firms in metropolitan areas and non-metropolitan areas. An increase of one standard deviation (SD) in the homicide rate in each locality destroys 319,542 jobs countrywide, while an equivalent increase in kidnapping implies a loss of 560,705 jobs. On including in the analysis locality population size in the considered dimensions, this increase in homicide implies a reduction of 181,988 and 99,184 jobs in metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, whereas for an equivalent increase in kidnapping the losses are 387,547 and 256,969 jobs, conditional on their respective model. Our results provide evidence of the heterogeneous damage of crime to employment, conditional on firm´s location and workforce size.

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Section: Unitary Changes In Crime Ratesupporting

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Crime and Employment Destruction in Mexico: Do Firms Size and Location Matter?

Moreno¹,

Saucedo²

2020

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“…Si bien el narcotráfico aparece como una alternativa a un mercado laboral precarizado o, que no formaliza a muchos de sus trabajadores —como ocurre en Colombia y en América Latina— (Coronado y Saucedo 2019), también es cierto que tiene efectos negativos en la economía y en el empleo de una región, debido a que desplaza a sectores económicos legítimos y profundiza una economía informal y que es poco regulada (Coronado y Saucedo 2019). Esta situación refuerza un bucle de carencias y desventajas sociales (Alzate-Zuluaga y Jiménez-García 2021) donde la falta de empleo, de formalización laboral y la falta de oportunidades económicas, en conjunto con el poco acceso a servicios básicos como la educación y la salud, aumentan la vulnerabilidad a la violencia y favorece la inserción en mercados criminales violentos.…”

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Comprensión del homicidio en las ciudades capitales colombianas. Un estudio de vulnerabilidad

Jiménez-García,

Arenas-Valencia,

Bohorquez-Bedoya

2023

Lat. Am. res. rev.

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Resumen El presente artículo examina el fenómeno del homicidio en Colombia y busca comprender las condiciones de vulnerabilidad que afectan al homicidio en las ciudades colombianas. A través de un enfoque teórico y metodológico basado en la vulnerabilidad se analizó dicha relación entre la violencia homicida con los mercados ilegales, los mercados laborales pauperizados y la repartición de la riqueza. La muestra se compuso de las treinta y dos ciudades capitales departamentales de Colombia. Se usaron herramientas estadísticas multivariadas (PLS-SEM) para analizar la relación entre estos factores y el homicidio. Los hallazgos sugieren que los bajos ingresos, la falta de empleo, la desigualdad y la violencia están asociados con un mayor riesgo de homicidio.

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Crime, Violence and Well-Being

Rojas

2019

Human Well-Being Research and Policy Making

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Drug-related violence in Mexico and its effects on employment

Cited by 5 publications

References 33 publications

Crime and Employment Destruction in Mexico: Do Firms Size and Location Matter?

Crime and Employment Destruction in Mexico: Do Firms Size and Location Matter?

Comprensión del homicidio en las ciudades capitales colombianas. Un estudio de vulnerabilidad

Crime, Violence and Well-Being

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