Road to perdition? The effect of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of prime-age men in Mexico.

Autor: Antón JI; University of Salamanca, Spain. Electronic address: janton@usal.es., Ponce J; FLACSO Ecuador, Ecuador., Muñoz de Bustillo R; University of Salamanca, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Economics and human biology [Econ Hum Biol] 2024 Aug 02; Vol. 55, pp. 101415. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 02.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ehb.2024.101415
Abstrakt: This research addresses the impact of illicit drug use on labour market outcomes of men in Mexico. We leverage statistical information from three waves of a comparable national survey and make use of the Lewbel's heteroskedasticity-based instrumental variable strategy to deal with the endogeneity of the drug consumption. Our results suggests that drug consumption has fairly negative effects in the Mexican context: it reduces employment, occupational attainment and formality and raises unemployment of local males. These effects seem larger than those estimated for high-income economies.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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