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produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing …
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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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-village-specific variables on migrants' location choice. …
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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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on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …
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Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely …
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Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
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