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This paper analyzes the insertion of the Mexican population in the job market in San Antonio, Texas. In particular, it responds to the question of what determines employment in individual, formally incorporated businesses. The methodology analyzes microdata from the American Community Survey (acs) using a logistic statistical estimation tool. The main results indicate that attributes such as command of the English language or an individual's origin could contribute to an understanding of job market insertion for the Mexican population living in the U.S. and do not necessarily constitute barriers for labor market insertion in the self-employment category in cities with traditional migration such as San Antonio, Texas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper contrasts public policies to enforce the payment of water services provided by two water utilities at the US-Mexico border. Our study shows that different payment enforcement strategies are shaped by the institutional context of each city. More importantly, these findings suggest that a high rate of nonpayment is associated with inadequate institutional arrangements that involve utilities, local politicians, and water users. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work demonstrates that integration policies and activities between Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, and San Antonio, Texas, are affected by each other because both entities are within the same economic and historic space. In this sense, integration policies in this region are not innovations, they are modem ways to reproduce the geographic and economic order. To analyze Nuevo Leon and San Antonio's government activities to advance into regional integration, we take into account the ideas of economic geography and economic space. At the end of the paper we show the limitations and profits of integration policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper develops a management zone delineation procedure based on a spatial statistics approach, and evaluates its economic impact for the case of Texas cotton production. With the use of an optimization model that utilizes a yield response function estimated taking into account spatial autocorrelation through spatial econometric methods, we found that applying variable N rates based on the management zones delineated would result in higher cotton yields relative to uniformly applying a single average N rate for the whole field. We also found that Variable Rate application would result in higher returns compare with uniform agronomically suggested N rate applications, and lower returns compare with economically optimum N rate applications. In addition, lower N levels (on average) were needed to achieve the higher yields and net returns for the variable rate case. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reproductive health services supplied by medical institutions to women in two border cities one in Mexico and another in the United States (Matamoros, Tamaulipas, and Brownsville, Texas) arc comparatively analysed. This paper is based on survey interviews on the supply side (hospital and clinics) and on the demand side of health services (patients). Concerning Brownsville, institutions supply a wide range of maternity services to women who behave very carefully in relation to their pregnancy and demand more specialised personnel. Regarding Matamoros, despite of the fact that local medical institutions supply a higher specialisation of medical and auxiliary personnel to women, as well is an integral attention, the use of these services is required by Mexican women at the last trimester of the pregnancy, and these services lend to be less specialised than in Brownsville. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]