Road to perdition? The effect of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of prime-age men in Mexico
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17 mai 2024
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Economics - General EconomicsSujets proches
Drugs--Utilization Drug use monitoring Medication use Drug consumption Drug use Drug surveillance Monitoring, Drug use Utilization of drugsCiter ce document
José-Ignacio Antón et al., « Road to perdition? The effect of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of prime-age men in Mexico », arXiv - économie
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This study addresses the impact of illicit drug use on the labour market outcomes of men in Mexico. We leverage statistical information from three waves of a comparable national survey and make use of Lewbel's heteroskedasticity-based instrumental variable strategy to deal with the endogeneity of drug consumption. Our results suggests that drug consumption has quite negative effects in the Mexican context: It reduces employment, occupational attainment and formality and raises unemployment of local men. These effects seem larger than those estimated for high-income economies