Download or read book Self selection patterns in Mexico U S migration the role of migration networks written by David J. McKenzie and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The authors examine the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. They first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from Mexico, the authors then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low migrant networks, but decreasing with education in communities with high migrant networks. This is consistent with positive self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico.
Download or read book Self Selection Patterns in Mexico U S Migration written by David J. McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. They first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from Mexico, the authors then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low migrant networks, but decreasing with education in communities with high migrant networks. This is consistent with positive self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico.
Download or read book Self Selection Patterns in Mexico U S Migration written by David McKenzie and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. They first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from Mexico, the authors then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low migrant networks, but decreasing with education in communities with high migrant networks. This is consistent with positive self-selection of migrants being driven by high migration costs, and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico.
Download or read book Mexican Immigration to the United States written by George J. Borjas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From debates on Capitol Hill to the popular media, Mexican immigrants are the subject of widespread controversy. By 2003, their growing numbers accounted for 28.3 percent of all foreign-born inhabitants of the United States. Mexican Immigration to the United States analyzes the astonishing economic impact of this historically unprecedented exodus. Why do Mexican immigrants gain citizenship and employment at a slower rate than non-Mexicans? Does their migration to the U.S. adversely affect the working conditions of lower-skilled workers already residing there? And how rapid is the intergenerational mobility among Mexican immigrant families? This authoritative volume provides a historical context for Mexican immigration to the U.S. and reports new findings on an immigrant influx whose size and character will force us to rethink economic policy for decades to come. Mexican Immigration to the United States will be necessary reading for anyone concerned about social conditions and economic opportunities in both countries.
Download or read book Mexican Migration to the U S written by Jose Navarro Martinez and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mexican migration to the U.S. is a phenomenon that has been studied extensively in the literature. Lately, it has acquired particular attention in the media and has now become a permanent component of the political dialogue in the U.S. To understand this phenomenon, many authors have analyzed the magnitude and selectivity of migrants from Mexico to the U.S., and many others have investigated the determinants of the migration decision. However, there is still no clear agreement on the determinants, patterns and the magnitude of the Mexican migration to the U.S. phenomenon. In this dissertation, I work to further the understanding on the topics of selectivity of migrants and the determinants of migration and to shed light on the causes for the lack of consensus in the literature. The first chapter follows the typical social capital approach to analyze the migration decision, but it also considers the impact of family remittances, a component that has been typically ignored when analyzing the migration decision. The main results show that both family remittances and migration networks promote migration abroad from poor rural communities in Mexico. The second chapter investigates why there are so many discrepancies on estimates of the magnitude and the selectivity of migrants from Mexico. This paper shows that such discrepancies result simply from the decision of what data source to use. As an alternative, this paper proposes the use of the Net Migration methodology to obtain estimates of the number of migrants, gender composition, age distribution and educational attainment. The main estimates obtained tend to fall between estimates that use U.S. data and estimates that use Mexican data. Finally, the third chapter analyzes several globalization measures taken by the Mexican government in the 1990s and their potential impact on the migration incidence. Contrary to the existing literature, this paper does not focus solely on the contribution of FDI, imports and maquiladora exports to GDP to asses the impact of globalization on migration. It considers also the impact of other globalization measures that severely affected agricultural communities and find that these measures had a strong positive impact on migration.
Download or read book Mexican Migration to the United States written by Steven S. Zahniser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. This book evaluates the influence of migration networks and human capital accumulation on Mexican migration to the United States. Because these two factors directly affect the costs and benefits of migration, they have a tremendous impact on Mexican migration. They shape its composition, determine its size, and regulate its pace.
Download or read book Mexican U S Migration written by Sarah M. Gale and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crossing the Border written by Jorge Durand and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussion of Mexican migration to the United States is often infused with ideological rhetoric, untested theories, and few facts. In Crossing the Border, editors Jorge Durand and Douglas Massey bring the clarity of scientific analysis to this hotly contested but under-researched topic. Leading immigration scholars use data from the Mexican Migration Project—the largest, most comprehensive, and reliable source of data on Mexican immigrants currently available—to answer such important questions as: Who are the people that migrate to the United States from Mexico? Why do they come? How effective is U.S. migration policy in meeting its objectives? Crossing the Border dispels two primary myths about Mexican migration: First, that those who come to the United States are predominantly impoverished and intend to settle here permanently, and second, that the only way to keep them out is with stricter border enforcement. Nadia Flores, Rubén Hernández-León, and Douglas Massey show that Mexican migrants are generally not destitute but in fact cross the border because the higher comparative wages in the United States help them to finance homes back in Mexico, where limited credit opportunities makes it difficult for them to purchase housing. William Kandel's chapter on immigrant agricultural workers debunks the myth that these laborers are part of a shadowy, underground population that sponges off of social services. In contrast, he finds that most Mexican agricultural workers in the United States are paid by check and not under the table. These workers pay their fair share in U.S. taxes and—despite high rates of eligibility—they rarely utilize welfare programs. Research from the project also indicates that heightened border surveillance is an ineffective strategy to reduce the immigrant population. Pia Orrenius demonstrates that strict barriers at popular border crossings have not kept migrants from entering the United States, but rather have prompted them to seek out other crossing points. Belinda Reyes uses statistical models and qualitative interviews to show that the militarization of the Mexican border has actually kept immigrants who want to return to Mexico from doing so by making them fear that if they leave they will not be able to get back into the United States. By replacing anecdotal and speculative evidence with concrete data, Crossing the Border paints a picture of Mexican immigration to the United States that defies the common knowledge. It portrays a group of committed workers, doing what they can to realize the dream of home ownership in the absence of financing opportunities, and a broken immigration system that tries to keep migrants out of this country, but instead has kept them from leaving.
Download or read book Historical Migration Patterns and Current Temporary Migration written by Susan I. Ranney and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the demand for low skilled labor in the United States has long been identified with the flow of migration from Mexico, the associated supply conditions of this migration remain a relatively neglected topic of research. Using a national migration survey (ENEFNEU), three determinants of the propensity for individual temporary migration from Mexico to United States are examined: individual characteristics, structural characteristics of the region of origin, and historical migration patterns. The levels and changes in patterns of temporary migration during the 1974-78 period are investigated, including consideration of the development of new source regions in Mexico. Previously developed migration networks are found to play a key role in explaining more current patterns of temporary migration.
Download or read book Self selection and International Migration written by Robert Kaestner and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey (MxFLS) to examine the patterns of selection of male, Mexican migrants to the United States. We confirm previous findings that Mexican migrants are selected from the middle of the education distribution, but show that there is no evidence for selection of migrants on cognitive ability. We demonstrate that migrants are also selected from the middle of the observed skill distribution, as measured by predicted wages. However, controlling for proxies of the costs of migration, we find substantially less evidence of "intermediate selection" on observed skill. We find little evidence for selection on unobserved skill, with or without controls for the costs of migration. Finally, we show directly that the decision to migrate is highly correlated with differential returns to observable skill and the costs of migration. Overall, these findings are consistent with the predictions of the canonical model of migration.
Download or read book Immigrant Selectivity from Rural and Urban Areas of Mexico to the United States written by Guillermo Alberto Paredes Orozco and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates on migrant educational selectivity - the position of migrants in the educational distribution of the sending country - have rarely taken into account the role played by community migrant networks in shaping selectivity. Moreover, studies have seldom analyzed how changes in the availability of migrant networks over time contribute to changes in selectivity, and whether this relationship is different for rural and urban sending areas. Using life history data from the Mexican Migration Project, I test whether changes in migration prevalence over time are associated with selectivity in the Mexico-U.S. migrant flow. I also explore how this relationship differs depending on the size of the sending community in Mexico. I find that the likelihood of U.S.-bound migration increases with migration prevalence in rural communities, small cities and metropolitan areas, suggesting that community networks reproduce international migration in all three types of settings. I also find that migrant network growth produces negative selection in rural areas, a result that is consistent with previous literature on the subject. Contrary to previous findings, however, migrant network growth produces positive selection in urban settings. Moreover, network growth is associated with more positive selection in large metropolitan sending areas compared to small urban areas. I argue that differences in selectivity patterns between rural and urban areas may be a result of urban networks being made up of weak ties, which are harder to reach and provide less support than the strong ties prevalent in rural settings. These differences may be accentuated in large metropolitan areas, where individuals are more isolated and social ties are weaker.
Download or read book On the Move written by Filiz Garip and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do Mexicans migrate to the United States? Is there a typical Mexican migrant? Beginning in the 1970s, survey data indicated that the average migrant was a young, unmarried man who was poor, undereducated, and in search of better employment opportunities. This is the general view that most Americans still hold of immigrants from Mexico. On the Move argues that not only does this view of Mexican migrants reinforce the stereotype of their undesirability, but it also fails to capture the true diversity of migrants from Mexico and their evolving migration patterns over time. Using survey data from over 145,000 Mexicans and in-depth interviews with nearly 140 Mexicans, Filiz Garip reveals a more accurate picture of Mexico-U.S migration. In the last fifty years there have been four primary waves: a male-dominated migration from rural areas in the 1960s and '70s, a second migration of young men from socioeconomically more well-off families during the 1980s, a migration of women joining spouses already in the United States in the late 1980s and ’90s, and a generation of more educated, urban migrants in the late 1990s and early 2000s. For each of these four stages, Garip examines the changing variety of reasons for why people migrate and migrants’ perceptions of their opportunities in Mexico and the United States. Looking at Mexico-U.S. migration during the last half century, On the Move uncovers the vast mechanisms underlying the flow of people moving between nations.
Download or read book Migration Networks and Risk in Household Labor Decisions written by J. Edward Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Migration Networks and Risks in Household Labor Decisions written by J. Edward Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family and Community Networks in Mexico U S Migration written by Paul Winters and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A household's decision to send migrants is based on information it has on the entry costs, expected returns, and risks of migration. Information and assistance flow from both family migrant networks and community migrant networks. Using data from a national survey of rural Mexican households, we show the importance of networks in both the decision to migrate and the level of migration. We find that community and family networks are substitutes in assisting migration, suggesting that, once migration is well established in a community, family networks become less important. In addition, the development of strong community networks erases the role of household characteristics in migration, allowing those initially least favored to also participate in migration. Finally, we show that network density at points of destination in the United States strongly affects where individuals choose to migrate.
Download or read book Self selection Among Undocumented Immigrants from Mexico written by Pia M. Orrenius and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This paper examines the effect of changes in migration determinants on the skill level of undocumented immigrants from Mexico. We focus on the effect of changes in economic conditions, migrant networks, and border enforcement on the educational attainment of Mexican-born men who cross the border illegally. Although previous research indicates that illegal aliens from Mexico tend to be unskilled relative to U.S. natives and that economic conditions, networks and border enforcement affect the size of illegal immigrant flows across the border, the interaction of these variables has not been investigated. Results from hazard models using data from the Mexican Migration Project indicate that improvements in U.S. and Mexican economic conditions are associated with relatively less-skilled undocumented immigrants. Stricter border enforcement is associated with higher skill levels. Access to a network of previous immigrants appears to lower the cost of migrating but has no differential effect by skill level"--Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas web site
Download or read book Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States written by Gordon H. Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, I selectively review recent literature on illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. I begin by discussing methods for estimating stocks and flows of illegal migrants. While there is uncertainty about the size of the unauthorized population, new data sources make it possible to examine the composition of legal and illegal populations and the time-series covariates of illegal labor flows. I then consider the supply of and demand for illegal migrants. Wage differentials between the 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, and changes in U.S. immigration policies are all candidate explanations for increasing labor flows from Mexico. Finally, I consider policies that regulate the cross-border flow of illegal migrants. While U.S. laws mandate that authorities prevent illegal entry and punish firms that hire unauthorized immigrants, these laws are imperfectly enforced. Lax enforcement may reflect political pressure by employers and other interests that favor open borders.