Labour Supply and the Environment: Evidence from Mexico

预计气候变化将在全球范围内产生巨大影响，如全球变暖、自然灾害增加、水供应和生态系统破坏等。这些影响将严重扰乱经济活动，特别是发展中国家最脆弱的群体，如城市地区的传统农民或低生产率和自营职业的非正式工人。应对环境破坏和适应气候变化的能力可能对脆弱家庭的福祉产生重大影响。该项目旨在分析墨西哥环境因素（如污染和天气）与非正式工人的劳动力供应之间的相互作用。利用墨西哥政府在其主要城市周围的监测站收集的非常详细的卫星数据和信息，结合全国就业调查，我将研究这些外部因素如何影响所述人口的行为和劳动力市场结果。

Climate change is expected to create drastic effects at a planetary scale such as global warming, increase of natural disasters and damage to water supplies and ecosystems, among others. These impacts will seriously disrupt economic activities, particularly among the most vulnerable in the developing world, such as traditional farers or low productivity and self-employed informal workers in urban areas. The ability to cope with environmental disruptions and to adapt to a changing climate can have strong implications in terms of wellbeing for vulnerable households. This project aims to analyse the interactions between environmental factors such as pollution and weather, and the labour supply of informal workers in Mexico. Using highly detailed satellite data and information gathered by the Mexican government in monitoring stations around its major cities in combination with the national employment survey, I will study how these external factors affect the behaviour and labour market outcomes of said population.