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Generaciones de maquiladoras: Un primer acercamiento a su medición
Frontera Norte, 2005 A inicios del presente siglo, la industria maquiladora de exportación se encuentra en la mayor encrucijada de su historia: la modernización y escalamiento en las plantas se ven limitadas por una pérdida estructural de sus ventajas competitivas.
Jorge Carrillo, Redi Gomis
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Endangering women's health for profit: health and safety in Mexico's maquiladoras
, 1999 Since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was agreed, thousands of maquiladoras (assembly plants) have sprung up along the Mexican side of the Mexico/US border.
Abell, Hilary
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, 2022 This article will examine the maquiladora system and its effects upon the Mexico and United States. Then focus will shift to the Yucatan Peninsula, which so far has not heavily participated in maquiladoras.
Sanders, L. Gray
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Unwelcome Expectancy: How Pregnancy Shapes Employment Opportunities in Mexico
Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the simulated client technique, this study examines pregnancy discrimination in hiring processes and shows how pregnancy hinders women's employment opportunities as a combined effect of gender biases and institutional incentives that discourage the hiring of pregnant women.
Sonia M. Frías
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Maquiladoras: An Important Asset For Mexicos Economy
, 2008 Maquiladoras are foreign-owned companies located for the most part along the California and Texas border in Mexico. Because of particular customs treatments, very low wages compared to wages in the United States, and the geographic proximity to the ...
Valentini, Gian Marco +1 more
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Discovering Legacies: Fathers, Sons, Masculinities, and Equity Within Families
Journal of Family Theory &Review, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 441-451, June 2026.ABSTRACT In this article, I examine how personal experiences within my family and my homeplace communities have shaped 20 years of basic and applied research, as well as theorizing, on fathering and masculinities. I focus on how my practice of reflexive research has led me to discover legacies of masculinities across generations of my own family ...
Kevin Roy
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Information Technology in Maquiladoras
, 2007 Mexico’s assembly operations, accelerated by the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), have been much of a debate in recent years. Manufacturing outputs and employment in maquiladoras declined in 2000s, much of which could be attributed to an ...
Mohan P. Rao, Purnendu Mandal
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Maquiladoras, Air Pollution, and Human Health in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso [PDF]
, 2017 Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, is home to the U.S.-Mexico border's largest maquiladora labor force, and also its worst air pollution. We marshal two types of evidence to examine the link between maquiladoras and air pollution in Ciudad Juarez, and in its ...
Blackman, Allen +2 more
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The Maquiladora Syndrome [PDF]
Contexts, 2013 Sociologist Gloria González-López offers her reflections about one of the most important lessons she learned about conducting sociological research inspired in feminism and intellectual activism in a Mexico-USA-Mexico transnational context.
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Trade, offshoring, and manufacturing employment volatility in Mexico
Economic Inquiry, Volume 64, Issue 1, Page 350-370, January 2026.Abstract We find that manufacturing sectors specializing in the processing and assembly of foreign‐owned intermediate goods had higher employment volatility in Mexico from 2007 to 2020, whereas specialization in trade had limited impacts on volatility.
Adam Walke, Stephan Weiler
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