propagate across the border with Mexico. We show that the large exogenous decline in US employment brought about by the Great … communities. These findings document the effects in Mexico when potential migrants lose access to a strong US labor market …

bottom of the skill distribution in Mexico …

In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by … United States and Mexico are hardly a new phenomenon, yet illegal migration from Mexico did not reach high levels until … recently. An increase in the relative size of Mexico's working-age population, greater volatility in U.S.-Mexico relative wages …

illustrative example, I estimate that migration from Mexico to the United States raises global income by an amount equivalent to …

In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor …

We examine illegal immigration in the United States from Mexico over the period 1976-1995. One challenge is that we do … individuals apprehended attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally. Based on a simple migration model, we postulate the … apprehensions at the U.S.-Mexico border, person hours the U.S. Border Patrol spends policing the border, and wages in the United …