Idle Youth in Mexico : Trapped between the War on Drugs and Economic Crisis
The present study combines data from Mexico's employment surveys (Encuesta Nacional de Empleo and Encuesta Nacional de OcupaciĆ³n y Empleo) with the country's official statistics on murder rates to create a state-level panel data set cover...
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Format: | Working Paper |
Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/02/25873511/idle-youth-mexico-trapped-between-war-drugs-economic-crisis http://hdl.handle.net/10986/23885 |
Summary: | The present study combines data from
Mexico's employment surveys (Encuesta Nacional de
Empleo and Encuesta Nacional de OcupaciĆ³n y Empleo) with the
country's official statistics on murder rates to create
a state-level panel data set covering the period 1995 to
2013. Including most of the common controls identified by
the literature, the results show that the rate of male youth
ages 19 to 24 not studying and out of work (the so-called
ninis), is not correlated with homicide rates during the
period 1995 to 2006. However, there is evidence that a
positive correlation between male ninis and murder rates
arises between 2007 and 2013, a period during which murder
rates in Mexico increased threefold. The association between
ninis and homicide rates is stronger in states located along
the border with the United States, a region particularly
affected by organized crime and the international financial
crisis of 2008-09. |
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