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Peer reviewedCornelius, Wayne A.; Martin, Philip L. – International Migration Review, 1993
Argues that it is easy to overestimate the additional emigration from rural Mexico that could occur as a result of North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) related economic restructuring in Mexico. Four major reasons why Mexican emigration may not increase dramatically are suggested. Phase-in recommendations related to implementation are…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Cooperation, Demography, Economic Change
Grayson, George W. – 1993
This document discusses the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as a debate over the wisdom of opening the southern United States border to the free flow of goods and services between the United States and Mexico. The book is divided into six chapters. The first is a basic introduction to the development of the idea of a free trade…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Economic Change, Foreign Countries, Foreign Policy
Download full textSummers, Gene F., Comp.; And Others – 1996
This directory contains names and contact information for over 50 social scientists who are available for consultation on policy issues related to poverty in rural America. Part I is organized by topics that are relevant to rural poverty policies and legislation. Under each topic heading are the names; university affiliations; addresses; and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Consultants, Human Resources, Labor Market
Katz, Elizabeth – 2001
Chapter 7 of "The Economics of Gender in Mexico" discusses how Mexico's "ejido" system, a semicollective form of land tenure, has been undergoing a process of privatization in which parcels are being converted into privately held land. Simultaneously, small-scale producers have been hurt by the lifting of price and credit…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Educational Needs, Employed Women
Cunningham, Shea – 1994
During the 1980s, the rise of independent farm labor contractors and Republican labor policies led to a deterioration in the economic well-being of farmworkers and their families. Delays in the implementation of new safeguards under the Worker Protection Standards Act have resulted in continuing exposure to pesticides, causing such exposure to…
Descriptors: Activism, Agricultural Laborers, Collective Bargaining, Immigration
