The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized … reducing unauthorized migration to the US. Although primarily aiming at unauthorized immigration, the IRCA had substantial …

The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized … reducing unauthorized migration to the US. Although primarily aiming at unauthorized immigration, the IRCA had substantial …

It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by … find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs … reduces migration rates in half, while subsidizing return migration in $300 reduces migration rates of older migrants but …

It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by … find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs … reduces migration rates in half, while subsidizing return migration in $300 reduces migration rates of older migrants but …

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …