Mexico's Maquiladora trade and the industrial flight hypothesis

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• Emily Hoffnar is Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas. David Molina is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas. Nelson Parish is a Research Assistant at New Mexico State University. The authors would like to thank Richard Cabe, James Peach and an anonymous referee for comments on earlier drafts of this paper. As usual, all errors and omissions remain strictly the responsibility of the authors.
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