Empirical Studies of Litigation and Settlement
Litigation and Settlement: New Evidence from Labor Courts in Mexico (with Joyce Sadka and Jorge Luis Silva-Mendez), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2008)
Using a newly assembled data set on procedures filed in Mexican labor tribunals, we study...
Enforceability of Labor Law: Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico (with Joyce Sadka), World Bank Policy Research working paper No. 4483 (2007)
We analyze lawsuits involving publicly-appointed lawyers in a labor court in Mexico to study how...
Executive Compensation
Executive Compensation: Six Questions That Need Answering (with John M. Abowd), Journal of Economic Perspectives (1999)
There is a growing realization by the popular business press that a proper analysis of...
Labor-Market Rigidities
El Efecto de los Salarios Minimos en los Ingresos Laborales de Mexico (with Francisco Perez Arce Novaro), El Trimestre Economico (2006)
This paper analyzes the effect of minimum wages on the income of workers in Mexico....
Nominal wage rigidities in Mexico: evidence from social security records (with Sara G. Castellanos and Rodrigo Garcia-Verdu), Journal of Development Economics (2004)
This paper analyzes the existence and extent of downward nominal wage rigidities in the Mexican...
Wage Determination
Firmwide Versus Establishment-Specific Labor Market Practices (with Brooks Pierce), Review of Economics and Statistics (2005)
We construct a novel data set matching occupational data from separate establishments to the establishments'...
What Happens to Wages after Displacement? (with Gabriel Martinez Gonzalez and Raymond Robertson), Economia: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (2005)
Faced with limited resources, policymakers need to know when and where to target support for...
Worker and Job Flows
Job Creation and Labor Reform in Latin America (2008)
This paper studies the effects of labor-regulation reform using data for 10,396 firms from 14...
Entry Regulation and Business Start-ups: Evidence from Mexico (with Eduardo Piedra and Enrique Seira) (2007)
We estimate the effect on business start-ups of a program that significantly speeds up firm...
Inflation and Establishment Turnover (with Gaetano Antonolfi), Eastern Economic Journal (2007)
We study a channel through which inflation can have effects on the real economy. Using...
Mexican Employment Dynamics: Evidence from Matched Firm-Worker Data (with Gabriel Martínez González and Raymond Robertson), World Bank Policy Research working paper # 4433 (2007)
Using a census of all workers in private establishments in the formal sector in Mexico...