El mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras

This article studies the labor market in Mexico´s northern-border states, and the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the maquiladora industry, and its relationship to employment and wage determination in the region from 1997 through 2004, with special attention to maquila...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:383c3c41953f4030b5a48c08431a35982021-11-11T14:54:55ZEl mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras0187-73722594-0260https://doaj.org/article/383c3c41953f4030b5a48c08431a35982005-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=13603405https://doaj.org/toc/0187-7372https://doaj.org/toc/2594-0260This article studies the labor market in Mexico´s northern-border states, and the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the maquiladora industry, and its relationship to employment and wage determination in the region from 1997 through 2004, with special attention to maquiladora closures between 2001 and 2003. Based on a model of the impact of international trade on employment and wages in a certain region, and utilizing a panel data model, the author analyzes the effect that the demand for maquiladora exports has had on the demand for employment and wages, in both the maquiladora industry and the non-maquiladora sector, characterized as a producer of nontradable-goods. The results suggest that, for this period in particular, employment in various sectors of the maquiladora industry determines equilibrium in the job market, and that the supply-and-demand equilibrium in those sectors determines the wages maquiladora firms pay.Eliseo Díaz GonzálezEl Colegio de la Frontera Nortearticlemaquiladoras regional economy twosector model north american free trade agreement northern border of mexicoUrban groups. The city. Urban sociologyHT101-395Social sciences (General)H1-99ENESFrontera Norte, Vol 17, Iss 34, Pp 139-165 (2005)
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topic maquiladoras regional economy two
sector model north american free trade agreement northern border of mexico
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
HT101-395
Social sciences (General)
H1-99
spellingShingle maquiladoras regional economy two
sector model north american free trade agreement northern border of mexico
Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
HT101-395
Social sciences (General)
H1-99
Eliseo Díaz González
El mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras
description This article studies the labor market in Mexico´s northern-border states, and the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on the maquiladora industry, and its relationship to employment and wage determination in the region from 1997 through 2004, with special attention to maquiladora closures between 2001 and 2003. Based on a model of the impact of international trade on employment and wages in a certain region, and utilizing a panel data model, the author analyzes the effect that the demand for maquiladora exports has had on the demand for employment and wages, in both the maquiladora industry and the non-maquiladora sector, characterized as a producer of nontradable-goods. The results suggest that, for this period in particular, employment in various sectors of the maquiladora industry determines equilibrium in the job market, and that the supply-and-demand equilibrium in those sectors determines the wages maquiladora firms pay.
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title El mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras
title_short El mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras
title_full El mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras
title_fullStr El mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras
title_full_unstemmed El mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras
title_sort el mercado de trabajo en la frontera norte frente al cierre de empresas maquiladoras
publisher El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
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