What Drives Short-Run Labor Market Volatility in Offshoring Industries? Evidence from Northern Mexico during 2007–2009

Recent research shows that employment in Mexico's offshoring maquiladora industries is twice as volatile as employment in their U.S. industry counterparts. The analyses in this paper use data from Mexico's social security records and U.S. customs between the first quarter of 2007 and the l...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kaplan, David S., Lederman, Daniel, Robertson, Raymond
Language:en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16381