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Author: Dell, Melissa

Title: The Violent Consequences of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement in Mexico

Summary: 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.

Details: S.L., 2018. 20p.

Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 8, 2018 at: https://scholar.harvard.edu/dell/publications/violent-consequences-trade-induced-worker-displacement-mexico

Year: 2018

Country: Mexico

URL: https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/dell/files/aeri-2018-0063-manuscript.pdf

Shelf Number: 151446

Keywords:
Cocaine
Cocaine Trafficking
Criminal Organizations
Drug Trafficking
Trade Competition
Violent Crime
Worker Displacement