Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 709
Cover Image
U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice
Bohn, Sarah - 2013
officers assigned to prevent unauthorized migrants from entering a state decreases that state's share of Mexican immigrants by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071280
Cover Image
Revisiting Economic Assimilation of Mexican and Central American Immigrants in the United States
Peri, Giovanni - 2020
convergence. We show that Mexicans and Central Americans working in the construction sector and in urban areas did better in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840998
Cover Image
Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans
Antman, Francisca - 2020
The literature on immigrant assimilation and intergenerational progress has sometimes reached surprising conclusions, such as the puzzle of immigrant advantage which finds that Hispanic immigrants sometimes have better health than U.S.-born Hispanics. While numerous studies have attempted to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842035
Cover Image
Intergenerational Transmission of Abilities and Self Selection of Mexican Immigrants
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2006
education and migration. The model is estimated using data on Mexicans in the US from the CPS and on Mexicans residents in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779042
Cover Image
Divorce Among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S
Houseworth, Christina - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870184
Cover Image
Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
Lozano, Fernando A. - 2010
likely to be kidnapped, smuggled, or raped when crossing illegally. If migration costs are not the same for all migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144382
Cover Image
Earnings Growth of Mexican Immigrants : New Versus Traditional Destinations
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2013
destinations, but remained mostly statistically insignificant at the newer destinations. Mexicans at the traditional destinations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080152
Cover Image
Migrant Networks and the Spread of Misinformation
Elsner, Benjamin - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061433
Cover Image
Immigration Policy and the Rise of Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - 2021
Over the past two decades, the U.S. has seen a drastic growth in self-employment among Mexican immigrants, the largest immigrant population in the country. This is an interesting yet puzzling trend, in stark contrast to the stagnated growth of self-employment among other disadvantaged minority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314826
Cover Image
September 11 and the Rise of Necessity Self-Employment Among Mexican Immigrants
Wang, Chunbei - 2019
Since the September 11 attacks (9/11), the U.S. has seen a tightening of immigration policies. Previous studies find that stricter immigration enforcement has the unintended effect of pushing undocumented immigrants into self-employment. This paper builds on the literature to better understand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863799