A Pandemic Crossing the Border: The Impact of Covid-19 in the US on the Mexican Labor Market

IF 2 3区经济学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Economic Development and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2023-07-26 DOI:10.21203/rs.3.rs-1490571/v1

Irvin Rojas, Jisang Yu

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Abstract

The labor markets in the US and Mexico are closely linked through migrant workers and remittances. In this paper, we investigate how the prevalence of the Covid-19 epidemic in the US affected the Mexican labor market. We construct a Mexican municipality-level measure of the exposure to Covid-19 in the US using migration data. We find a positive effect of the Covid-19 exposure in the US on work hours among workers in Mexico. We also find that the effect varies across subgroups which indicates that the responses in worked hours depend on the household dynamics, employment opportunities, and the nature of the occupation-specific tasks.

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跨界大流行:美国Covid-19对墨西哥劳动力市场的影响

美国和墨西哥的劳动力市场通过移民工人和汇款紧密联系在一起。在本文中，我们研究了美国新冠肺炎疫情的流行如何影响墨西哥的劳动力市场。我们使用移民数据构建了墨西哥市政级的美国Covid-19暴露度量。我们发现，美国新冠肺炎疫情对墨西哥工人的工作时间产生了积极影响。我们还发现，不同亚组的影响不同，这表明工作时间的反应取决于家庭动态、就业机会和职业特定任务的性质。

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3.70

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期刊介绍： Economic Development and Cultural Change (EDCC) is an economic journal publishing studies that use modern theoretical and empirical approaches to examine both the determinants and the effects of various dimensions of economic development and cultural change. EDCC’s focus is on empirical papers with analytic underpinnings, concentrating on micro-level evidence, that use appropriate data to test theoretical models and explore policy impacts related to a broad range of topics relevant to economic development.