Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks
This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. A simple theoretical framework shows the impact of networks on migration incentives at different education levels and how this affects the composition of migrant skills. Empirically, we find positive or education-neutral selection in communities with weak migrant networks but negative self-selection in communities with stronger networks. This is consistent with high migration costs driving positive or intermediate self-selection, as advocated by Chiquiar and Hanson (2005), and with negative self-selection being driven by lower returns to education in the United States than in Mexico, as advocated by Borjas (1987).
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| Format: | Journal Article biblioteca |
| Language: | EN |
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2010
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| Subjects: | Analysis of Education I210, Human Capital, Skills, Occupational Choice, Labor Productivity J240, Geographic Labor Mobility, Immigrant Workers J610, Economic Sociology, Economic Anthropology, Social and Economic Stratification Z130, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4759 |
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