The Journal of political economy, 2005-04, Vol.113 (2), p.239-281
2005
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- Titel
- International Migration, Self‐Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States
- Ist Teil von
- The Journal of political economy, 2005-04, Vol.113 (2), p.239-281
- Ort / Verlag
- Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2005
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- EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate
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- We use the 1990 and 2000 Mexican and U.S. population censuses to test Borjas’s negative‐selection hypothesis that the less skilled are those most likely to migrate from countries with high skill premia/earnings inequality to countries with low skill premia/earnings inequality. We find that Mexican immigrants in the United States are more educated than nonmigrants in Mexico; and were Mexican immigrants to be paid according to current skill prices in Mexico, they would be concentrated in the middle of Mexico’s wage distribution. These results are inconsistent with the negative‐selection hypothesis and instead suggest that there is intermediate selection of immigrants from Mexico.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0022-3808eISSN: 1537-534XDOI: 10.1086/427464Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_60677138
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Censuses, Contrafactuals, Correlation analysis, Earnings, Economic theory, Education, Educational Attainment, Foreign Countries, Human migration, Hypotheses, Hypothesis testing, Illegal immigration, Immigrant populations, Immigrants, Immigration, Inequality, International migration, Labor market, Men, Mexican Americans, Mexicans, Mexico, Migration, Negative selection, Noncitizens, Political economy, Population, Positive selection, Prices, Quantitative analysis, Skilled workers, Skills, Studies, U.S.A, United States, United States of America, Wage differential, Wages, Wages & salaries, Workforce