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U.S., Mexico deepen economic ties
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Maquiladora recovery: lessons for the future
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Banking industry evolution along the Texas-Mexico border
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Housing market trends in El Paso
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Trade, manufacturing put Mexico back on track in 2004
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Border cities: economic competitors or complements?
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Spotlight: maquiladora employment: new data confirm pickup in Juarez factory jobs
For decades, Mexico's maquiladoras have been a major growth engine in the Rio Grande region, and monthly reports on the industry's employment, wages and production were key barometers for the border region's economy. ; We developed a model to estimate Juarez's monthly maquiladora employment. This model will continue to be a timely indicator of El Paso-Jurez area manufacturing activity, given its track record and Mexico's two-month lag in reporting IMMEX (Maquiladora Manufacturing Industry and Export Services), data.
Discussion Paper
Analyzing the export flow from Texas to Mexico
From 1997 to 2008, Texas shipped 40 percent of its manufacturing exports to Mexico. This puts Texas-Mexico among the largest state-country trading relationships. But this share has been declining recently. A gravity equation cannot account for either of these facts, even though Texas and Mexico share a border. This positive contiguity effect is not unique in state export data. I study the features of the Texas-Mexico relationship to try to account for the size of the export flow and the recent decline in share. Data limitations prevent a full accounting, but the most likely feature is the ...
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Workers' remittances to Mexico
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Maquiladora industry: past, present and future