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Nearly a quarter of Mexico's workforce is self employed. But in the U.S. rates of self employment among Mexican … residing in Mexico and the U.S. accounts for the differences in the self employment rates in the two countries. Within the U …
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n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...
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Recent literature on the relationship between ethnic or racial segregation and outcomes has failed to produce a consensus view of the role of ghettos; some studies suggest that residence in an enclave is beneficial, some reach the opposite conclusion, and still others imply that any relationship...
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Over the past thirty years, immigration has increased, immigrant characteristics have changed, and the relative mean wages of immigrants vis … vis the native born have declined. Using data from four U.S. Censuses (1960 - 1990) we examine changes in the wage structure and their role in...
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from some regions earned much more than natives, while others, especially from Mexico, earned much less. This paper also …
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We provide the first estimates of ethnic segregation between 1850 and 1940 that cover the entire United States and are consistent across time and space. To do so, we adapt the Logan-Parman method to immigrants by measuring segregation based on the nativity of the next-door neighbor. In addition...
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The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non-Mexican race--predominantly "white"--to U.S.-born individuals...
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Black, and MENA and White or Black. We also study the USA-born children of these same immigrants. Long-term earnings …
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communities. These findings document the effects in Mexico when potential migrants lose access to a strong US labor market … propagate across the border with Mexico. We show that the large exogenous decline in US employment brought about by the Great …
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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 …
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