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 …

We consider the issue of illegal migration from Mexico to the US, and examine whether the lack of legal status causally … impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of ….g. wages). We propose a new re-parametrisation of the control function, which is linear in case of a normal error structure …