A Pandemic Crossing the Border: The Impact of Covid-19 in the US on the Mexican Labor Market
A Pandemic Crossing the Border: The Impact of Covid-19 in the US on the Mexican Labor Market
Abstract The labor markets in the US and Mexico are closely linked through migrant workers and remittances. In this paper, we investigate how the prevalence of the Covid-19 epidemic in the US affected the Mexican labor market. We construct a Mexican municipality-level measure of the exposure to Covid-19 in the …