regions of the United States and Mexico. The U.S. Border Patrol polices U.S. boundaries, seeking to apprehend any individual … southern California, southwestern Texas, and Mexican cities on the U.S.-Mexico border. For each region, we have high …) immigration from Mexico has a minimal impact on wages in U.S. border cities …

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

Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment … been lackluster, trailing that of many other developing nations. In this paper, I review arguments for why Mexico hasn …. These are factors internal to Mexico. One possible external factor is that the country has the bad luck of exporting goods …

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

While outsourcing of production from the U.S. to Mexico has been hailed in Mexico as a valuable engine of growth … outsourcing industries in Mexico experience fluctuations in value added that are roughly twice as volatile as the corresponding …

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 …

In this paper, I examine changes in labor supply and earnings across regions of Mexico during the 1990s. I focus the …

In this paper, I examine changes in the distribution of labor income across regions of Mexico during the country …

In this paper, I examine the impacts of trade and investment liberalization on the wage structure of Mexico. Part one … of the paper surveys recent literature on the labor-market consequences of Mexico's economic reforms in the 1980?s …. Mexico's policy reforms appear to have raised the demand for skill in the country, reduced rents in industries that prior to …

In this paper, we use data from the Mexico and U.S. population censuses to examine who migrates from Mexico to the … United States and how the skills and economic performance of these individuals compare to those who remain in Mexico. We test ….S. natives, are on average more educated than residents of Mexico, and 2) were Mexican immigrants in the United States to be paid …