Abstract:This paper estimates conventional linear models to evaluate whether the average growth rate of employment (permanent, temporary, and total) over early expansions depends on the characteristics of prior recessions for the Mexican states during the 2001 and 2008 recessions. After controlling for the initial impulse of external and fiscal shocks as well as for the effects of structural factors, our results suggest that the depth and steepness of prior recessions (measured as the percentage accumulated drop and mo… Show more
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