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Journal of Development Economics | 1996

Why has wage dispersion grown in Mexico? Is it the incidence of reforms or the growing demand for skills?

Michael Ian Cragg; Mario Epelbaum

In the mid 1980s, Mexico undertook major trade reform, privatization and deregulation. This coincided with a rapid expansion in wages and employment that led to a rise in wage dispersion. This paper examines the role of industry and occupation-specific effects in explaining the growing dispersion. We find that despite the magnitude and pace of the reforms, industry-specific effects explain little of the rising wage dispersion. In contrast occupation-specific effects can explain almost half of the growing wage dispersion. Finally, we find that the economy became more skill-intensive and that this effect was larger for the traded sector because this sector experienced much smaller low-skilled employment growth. We therefore suggest that competition from imports had an important role in the fall of the relative demand for less-skilled workers.


Regional Science and Urban Economics | 1999

Climate consumption and climate pricing from 1940 to 1990

Michael Ian Cragg; Matthew E. Kahn

Abstract This paper studies trends in US climate consumption and climate compensating differentials. Three findings emerge. First, the population has shifted so that the consumption of warmer winter climate has risen for both working families and more dramatically for senior citizens. Second, there has been a rise in rental capitalization. Third, earnings capitalization has declined. Between 1960 and 1990, the relative price of climate has increased for senior citizens and fallen for working families.


Journal of Urban Economics | 1997

New Estimates of Climate Demand: Evidence from Location Choice

Michael Ian Cragg; Matthew E. Kahn


Journal of Law Economics & Organization | 1997

Performance Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from the Job Training Partnership Act

Michael Ian Cragg


Journal of Urban Economics | 1999

Do Homeless Shelter Conditions Determine Shelter Population? The Case of the Dinkins Deluge

Michael Ian Cragg; Brendan O'Flaherty


Archive | 1995

The Premium for Skills in LDCs: Evidence from Mexico

Michael Ian Cragg; Mario Epelbaum


Archive | 1996

Why Has Wage Dispersion Grown in Mexico

Michael Ian Cragg; Mario Epelbaum


National Bureau of Economic Research | 2009

Carbon Geography: The Political Economy of Congressional Support for Legislation Intended to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Production

Michael Ian Cragg; Matthew E. Kahn


Labor and Demography | 1995

Performance Incentives in Government Subcontracting: Evidence from the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA)

Michael Ian Cragg


Archive | 1994

Measuring the Incentive to be Homeless

Michael Ian Cragg; Brendan O'Flaherty

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Matthew E. Kahn

National Bureau of Economic Research

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Mario Epelbaum

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México

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