Replication data for: The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Melissa Dell; Benjamin Feigenberg; Kensuke Teshima
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Project Citation:
Dell, Melissa, Feigenberg, Benjamin, and Teshima, Kensuke. Replication data for: The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-10-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/E113545V1
Project Description
Summary:
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Mexican manufacturing job loss induced by competition with China increases cocaine trafficking and violence, particularly in municipalities with transnational criminal organizations. When it becomes more lucrative to traffic drugs because changes in local labor markets lower the opportunity cost of criminal employment, criminal organizations plausibly fight to gain control. The evidence supports a Becker-style model in which the elasticity between legitimate and criminal employment is particularly high where criminal organizations lower illicit job search costs, where the drug trade implies higher pecuniary returns to violent crime, and where unemployment disproportionately affects low-skilled men.
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JEL Classification:
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F16 Trade and Labor Market Interactions
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
L60 Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
F16 Trade and Labor Market Interactions
J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
J64 Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
L60 Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General
O15 Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
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