US-Mexico Border Economy
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Introduction/Introducción
Noé Arón Fuentes, Roberto Coronado, Jesús Cañas, and Paul Ganster
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Chapters
THE SOCIOECONOMIC PROFILE OF THE U.S.–MEXICO BORDER
Where Are the Workers? Forgotten Production in Non-Exporting Manufacturing in Tijuana, Mexico
Gustavo del Castillo Vera
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Specialization, Agglomeration, and Border Urban Manufacturing Growth
Jorge Eduardo Mendoza Cota
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Measuring Progress in a Transborder Region: The Arizona–Sonora Indicators
Vera Pavlakovich-Kochi
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MAQUILADORAS AND BINATIONAL ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
The Tijuana–San Diego Binational Region and the Development of the Electronics Industry
María del Rosio Barajas Escamilla
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Local Suppliers Opportunities: Tijuana’s Televisión Industry (Spanish)
Jorge Carrillo Viveros
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The Impact of the U.S. Business Cycle on Mexico’s Maquiladora Industry
James Gerber and Edmund Balsdon
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Economic Structure of the Northeast Region in Mexico: Emphasis on the Maquiladora Industry (Spanish)
Ramón G. Guajardo Quiroga, Reyna A. Dorantes González, and Dina V. Rodríguez Alarcón
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Global Integration of the Electronics Maquiladora Industry in the 1990s: The Case of the Manufacturing and Assembling of Television Sets in Baja California (Spanish)
Mario A. Herrera Sánchez
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Maquiladoras, Wages, and Employment in Mexico’s Northern Border States (Spanish)
Juan Noyola
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The Selection Strategy of Suppliers in the Electronics Sector of the Maquiladora Industry: The Case of Sony Tijuana Este (Spanish)
María Ruth Vargas Leyva
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IMMIGRATION
Illegal Immigration and Enforcement along the U.S.–Mexico Border: An Overview
Pia M. Orrenius  
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Empirical Evidence on the Effects of NAFTA and Dollarization on Illegal Immigration
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Susan Pozo
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING
Public Capital Formation and Regional Productivity of the Manufacturing Industry in Mexico (Spanish)
César M. Fuentes
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Cross-Border Planning on the U.S.–Mexico Border: Bilateral vs. Binational Agencies
Sergio Peña
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Public Mobilization and the Search for an Urban and Environmental Participative Planning Practice on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Spanish)
Basilio Verduzco Chávez
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THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE U.S.–MEXICO BORDER ECONOMIES ON A GLOBAL LEVEL
Border, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Growth: The Experience of Monterrey (Spanish)
Mario Cerutti
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About the Contributors
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