Joan B Anderson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6457000 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan B Anderson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan B |
| FAMILY NAME | Anderson |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSON J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The US-Mexico Border Human Development Index, 1990–2015
This paper uses Mexico's 2015 Inter-census Survey, the US's American Community Survey, and publicly available data on health, education, and the economy to update the Border Human Development Index (BHDI). The purpose of this index is to provide time series and cross sections of comparative measures of well-being in the states, counties and municipios that line the US-Mexico Border. For the time period spanned by the sample, 1990–2015, we find th…
The US-Mexico Border Human Development Index, 1990–2010
This paper updates the Border Human Development Index (BHDI), a quality of life index for comparing well-being in municipios [Mexican sub-state administrative units] and counties along the US-Mexico border from 1990 to 2010. The index, first published in 2004, is updated to include the 2010 census data. Empirical estimations show that the gap between the US and Mexican BHDI increased during the 2000–2010 decade. Many of the employment and income …
A dataset for U.S.‐Mexico border research
This note describes a new dataset for research on the United States-Mexico border regions. The dataset forms the empirical core of the newly published book, Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexican Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life by Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber (2007), and is contained in 75 Excel files hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies at San Diego State University. The files can be found at http://latinameri…
A human development index for the United States‐Mexico border
This paper presents a Border Human Development Index, which is a modified version of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index, in order to compare the development levels of the U.S. counties and Mexican municipios that touch the U.S.‐Mexico Border. The paper presents the methodology used for constructing this index, along with results of the HDI's three sub‐indices of income, education and health, and the full Border HDI f…
Borders, border regions and economic integration
The effects of a border on economic interaction depend on the nature of that border with respect to the degree of openness, the degree of cultural, racial and linguistic differences, political relations between the respective regions and the degree of economic disparity. High walls and slow border crossings are detrimental to economic exchange. Economic and political tensions surrounding a border are directly related to the degree of economic dis…
The U.S.-Mexico border
The region surrounding the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been an area of dynamic growth and development during the last fifty years. In this region where the U.S. and Mexico share a common heritage, cultures and languages meet and intertwine. This paper presents a description of trends in population and quality of life indicators: education, housing and poverty, tracing how they have grown and changed over the last half of the 20th centu…
Women's Labor Force participation and migration to the Texas Border Region
In the U.S. during the last 30 years, it has become increasingly accepted for women, even married women with small children, to participate in the paid labor force. Currently the fastest growing segment of the U.S. labor force is married women with young children. That women are joint, or at least supplementary wage earners in the family, has become widely accepted. In Mexico, on the other hand, there continues to be a strong cultural ideology of…
The impact of opening markets on Mexican male/female wage and occupational differentials
This article addresses the effect of a more open market under NAFTA on the economic status of Mexican women. It is assumed that increases in export processing and tourism, industries that have a high demand for female labor, will result from the agreement. The approach of this study is to use regression and correlation analysis to compare wage and occupational differences in two Mexican cities: Tijuana, on the U.S.-Mexican border, and Torreon, in…
Economic survival strategies of poor families on the Mexican Border
Maquiladoras and border industrialization
(1990). Maquiladoras and border industrialization: Impact on economic development in Mexico. Journal of Borderlands Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 5-9
Causes of growth in the informal labor sector in Mexico's Northern Border Region
The Mexican border region, along with other developing regions, is experiencing increasing pressure from a growing labor supply. Demand for labor in the modem industrial sector has not kept pace with this expansion. The necessity of survival prevents the resulting excess supply from being unemployed. Instead, this labor is forced to seek employment in the turning its creativity into the self-generation of income. This unorganized sector, which ha…
Size, efficiency, and profitability
This study is an empirical investigation of the relationship between the size of a plant and its efficiency and profitability. The question of optimum size of plant has important implications for both governmental development planning policy and managerial planning. In many developing countries policies toward business with respect to credit, subsidies and tax treatment often are differentiated by size of firm based on the conventional wisdom tha…
The response of labour effort to falling real wages
The U.S.-Mexico border
The region surrounding the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been an area of dynamic growth and development during the last fifty years. In this region where the U.S. and Mexico share a common heritage, cultures and languages meet and intertwine. This paper presents a description of trends in population and quality of life indicators: education, housing and poverty, tracing how they have grown and changed over the last half of the 20th centu…
Borders, border regions and economic integration
The effects of a border on economic interaction depend on the nature of that border with respect to the degree of openness, the degree of cultural, racial and linguistic differences, political relations between the respective regions and the degree of economic disparity. High walls and slow border crossings are detrimental to economic exchange. Economic and political tensions surrounding a border are directly related to the degree of economic dis…
A human development index for the United States‐Mexico border
This paper presents a Border Human Development Index, which is a modified version of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index, in order to compare the development levels of the U.S. counties and Mexican municipios that touch the U.S.‐Mexico Border. The paper presents the methodology used for constructing this index, along with results of the HDI's three sub‐indices of income, education and health, and the full Border HDI f…
Economic survival strategies of poor families on the Mexican Border
Causes of growth in the informal labor sector in Mexico's Northern Border Region
The Mexican border region, along with other developing regions, is experiencing increasing pressure from a growing labor supply. Demand for labor in the modem industrial sector has not kept pace with this expansion. The necessity of survival prevents the resulting excess supply from being unemployed. Instead, this labor is forced to seek employment in the turning its creativity into the self-generation of income. This unorganized sector, which ha…
The impact of opening markets on Mexican male/female wage and occupational differentials
This article addresses the effect of a more open market under NAFTA on the economic status of Mexican women. It is assumed that increases in export processing and tourism, industries that have a high demand for female labor, will result from the agreement. The approach of this study is to use regression and correlation analysis to compare wage and occupational differences in two Mexican cities: Tijuana, on the U.S.-Mexican border, and Torreon, in…
Maquiladoras and border industrialization
(1990). Maquiladoras and border industrialization: Impact on economic development in Mexico. Journal of Borderlands Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 5-9
The response of labour effort to falling real wages
Causes of growth in the informal labor sector in Mexico's Northern Border Region
The Mexican border region, along with other developing regions, is experiencing increasing pressure from a growing labor supply. Demand for labor in the modem industrial sector has not kept pace with this expansion. The necessity of survival prevents the resulting excess supply from being unemployed. Instead, this labor is forced to seek employment in the turning its creativity into the self-generation of income. This unorganized sector, which ha…
Size, efficiency, and profitability
This study is an empirical investigation of the relationship between the size of a plant and its efficiency and profitability. The question of optimum size of plant has important implications for both governmental development planning policy and managerial planning. In many developing countries policies toward business with respect to credit, subsidies and tax treatment often are differentiated by size of firm based on the conventional wisdom tha…
Maquiladoras and border industrialization
(1990). Maquiladoras and border industrialization: Impact on economic development in Mexico. Journal of Borderlands Studies: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 5-9
Economic survival strategies of poor families on the Mexican Border
Women's Labor Force participation and migration to the Texas Border Region
In the U.S. during the last 30 years, it has become increasingly accepted for women, even married women with small children, to participate in the paid labor force. Currently the fastest growing segment of the U.S. labor force is married women with young children. That women are joint, or at least supplementary wage earners in the family, has become widely accepted. In Mexico, on the other hand, there continues to be a strong cultural ideology of…
The impact of opening markets on Mexican male/female wage and occupational differentials
This article addresses the effect of a more open market under NAFTA on the economic status of Mexican women. It is assumed that increases in export processing and tourism, industries that have a high demand for female labor, will result from the agreement. The approach of this study is to use regression and correlation analysis to compare wage and occupational differences in two Mexican cities: Tijuana, on the U.S.-Mexican border, and Torreon, in…
Borders, border regions and economic integration
The effects of a border on economic interaction depend on the nature of that border with respect to the degree of openness, the degree of cultural, racial and linguistic differences, political relations between the respective regions and the degree of economic disparity. High walls and slow border crossings are detrimental to economic exchange. Economic and political tensions surrounding a border are directly related to the degree of economic dis…
The U.S.-Mexico border
The region surrounding the border between the U.S. and Mexico has been an area of dynamic growth and development during the last fifty years. In this region where the U.S. and Mexico share a common heritage, cultures and languages meet and intertwine. This paper presents a description of trends in population and quality of life indicators: education, housing and poverty, tracing how they have grown and changed over the last half of the 20th centu…
A human development index for the United States‐Mexico border
This paper presents a Border Human Development Index, which is a modified version of the United Nations Development Program's Human Development Index, in order to compare the development levels of the U.S. counties and Mexican municipios that touch the U.S.‐Mexico Border. The paper presents the methodology used for constructing this index, along with results of the HDI's three sub‐indices of income, education and health, and the full Border HDI f…
A dataset for U.S.‐Mexico border research
This note describes a new dataset for research on the United States-Mexico border regions. The dataset forms the empirical core of the newly published book, Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexican Border: Growth, Development, and Quality of Life by Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber (2007), and is contained in 75 Excel files hosted by the Center for Latin American Studies at San Diego State University. The files can be found at http://latinameri…
The US-Mexico Border Human Development Index, 1990–2010
This paper updates the Border Human Development Index (BHDI), a quality of life index for comparing well-being in municipios [Mexican sub-state administrative units] and counties along the US-Mexico border from 1990 to 2010. The index, first published in 2004, is updated to include the 2010 census data. Empirical estimations show that the gap between the US and Mexican BHDI increased during the 2000–2010 decade. Many of the employment and income …
The US-Mexico Border Human Development Index, 1990–2015
This paper uses Mexico's 2015 Inter-census Survey, the US's American Community Survey, and publicly available data on health, education, and the economy to update the Border Human Development Index (BHDI). The purpose of this index is to provide time series and cross sections of comparative measures of well-being in the states, counties and municipios that line the US-Mexico Border. For the time period spanned by the sample, 1990–2015, we find th…
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