Arbeitspapier
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. We 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, we 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, as advocated by Chiquiar and Hanson (2005), and with negative self-selection of migrants being driven by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico, as advocated by Borjas (1987).
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 01/07
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
- Thema
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Migration
migration networks
educational attainments
self-selection
Mexico
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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McKenzie, David
Rapoport, Hillel
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
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London
- (wann)
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2007
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- McKenzie, David
- Rapoport, Hillel
- Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
Entstanden
- 2007
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