Labour Supply and the Environment: Evidence from Mexico

预计气候变化将在全球范围内产生严重影响，如全球变暖、自然灾害增加以及对供水和生态系统的破坏等。这些影响将严重扰乱经济活动，特别是发展中世界最脆弱群体的经济活动，如城市地区的传统旅行者或低生产力和自营职业的非正规工人。科普环境破坏和适应气候变化的能力对弱势家庭的福祉具有重大影响。该项目旨在分析污染和天气等环境因素与墨西哥非正规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上述人口的行为和劳动力市场的结果。

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.