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States and Mexico. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between Mexico and the United States between 1988 and … Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration … convergence for workers with high migration propensities. Finally, we find evidence of convergence in the border of Mexico vis …
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United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in … evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may …
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' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …
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effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find 12-28 percent effects on average wages. The wage effect mostly reverses …
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We compare wages in multinational enterprises (MNEs) versus domestic firms, the earnings of domestic firm workers with …–2011. We identify the returns to MNE experience from changes of ownership, wages paid by new firms of different ownership, and …
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the joint estimation of firm and worker fixed effects. We find that changes in ownership do not tend to affect wages …
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This paper investigates the effect of the US Illegal Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a significant effect on remittance flows from illegal...
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supply in Mexican municipios near Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, but not near California, which retained a pre-existing state … effect is contingent on political factors related to Mexico's democratic transition. Killings increased substantially more in …
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migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on …
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We provide the first evidence on the causal effect of border enforcement on the full spatial distribution of Mexican immigrants to the United States. We address the endogeneity of border enforcement with an instrumental variables strategy based on administrative delays in budgetary allocations...
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