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"Mexican immigrants were historically clustered in a few cities, mainly in California and Texas. During the past 15 years, however, arrivals from Mexico established sizeable immigrant communities in many "new" cities. We explore the causes and consequences of the widening geographic diffusion of...
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Mexican immigrants were historically clustered in a few cities, mainly in California and Texas. During the past 15 years, however, arrivals from Mexico established sizeable immigrant communities in many "new" cities. We explore the causes and consequences of the widening geographic diffusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467126
education and migration. The model is estimated using data on Mexicans in the US from the CPS and on Mexicans residents in …
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We present estimates of the effect of legal immigration status on earnings of undocumented workers. Our contribution to the literature centers on a two-step procedure that allows us to first estimate the legal status of an immigrant and then estimate the effect of the Immigration Reform and...
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destinations, but remained mostly statistically insignificant at the newer destinations. Mexicans at the traditional destinations …
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officers assigned to prevent unauthorized migrants from entering a state decreases that state's share of Mexican immigrants by …
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empirically using data on recent Mexican migrants to the US, and exploit the geographic diffusion of Mexicans since the 1980s as …Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success … future migrants. In a decision model with imperfect signalling we show that migrants with access to a better network are more …
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employment opportunities for the undocumented. We examine how the remitting patterns of Mexican migrants in the United States are … increased enforcement reduces the share of migrants sending money home. However, legal migrants remitting money home increase …
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