Local labor markets in U.S.–Mexican border cities and the impact of maquiladora production

Mollick, André Varella; Cortez-Rayas, Abigaíl; Olivas-Moncisvais, Rosa A.

doi:10.1007/s00168-005-0031-9

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“…recent evidence indicates that value added growth in maquiladoras has had more impact on sectors other than manufacturing in US border cities after 1990. Mollick et al (2005) use a time-series approach to investigate this issue for the city pairs of Brownsville-Matamoros and El Paso-Juárez. respect to a basket of 111 currencies and deflated by consumer price indices.…”

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confidence: 99%

Chinese competition and its effects on Mexican maquiladoras

Mollick¹,

Wvalle-Vázquez

2006

Journal of Comparative Economics

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Chinese competition and its effects on Mexican maquiladoras

Mollick¹,

Wvalle-Vázquez

2006

Journal of Comparative Economics

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“…A potential problem with the analyses thus far is the underlying assumption regarding the homogeneity of the U.S.-Mexico border region-a region that stretches nearly 2,000 miles. Other studies have observed striking differences among U.S. cities located near Mexico ( Dávila, Schmidt and Ziegler, 1984;Mollick et al, 2006). As such, perhaps the observed improvement in the earnings of Mexican immigrants in U.S.-border MSAs relative to their interior counterparts as well as U.S.-born Mexican Americans only occurred in one particular region.…”

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confidence: 84%

Changes in the Relative Earnings Gap Between Natives and Immigrants Along the U.S.‐MEXICO Border*

Dávila¹,

Mora²

2008

Journal of Regional Science

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Using 1990 and 2000 U.S. census data, this study investigates changes in immigrant/native earnings disparities for workers in U.S. cities along the international border with Mexico "vis-à-vis" the U.S. interior during the 1990s. Our findings-based on estimating earnings functions and employing the Juhn-Murphy-Pierce (1993, "JPE") wage decomposition technique-indicate that the average earnings of Mexican immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border improved relative to those accrued by their counterparts in the U.S. interior and by otherwise similar U.S.-born Mexican Americans between 1990 and 2000. However, when comparing Mexican-born workers to U.S.-born non-Hispanic whites, the immigrant border-earnings penalty remained statistically unchanged. Copyright (c) Blackwell Publishing, Inc. 2008

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“…First, Hanson (2001) has reported that the activity of Mexican maquiladora production has a large impact on US cities close to the border. Mollick et al (2006) have revisited this issue for Brownsville-Matamoros and El Paso-Juárez city pairs and suggest the impact is not confined to manufacturing. Incorporating this finding into local unemployment behavior is part of our research agenda.…”

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confidence: 99%