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The Impact of Return Migration to Mexico

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  • Seth R. Gitter

    (Towson University)

  • Robert J. Gitter

    (Ohio Wesleyan University)

  • Douglas Southgate

    (The Ohio State University)

Abstract

Hundreds of thousand of Mexicans leave their country each year for the United States. Almost half these migrants return to Mexico within twelve months. Using a sample of working-aged males from (MxFLS) we find that being a return migrant affects the probability of employment. In states along the US border return migrants are less likely to be employed and those in the Central and Capital areas more likely. But these effects disappear when we correct for the fact that factors that determine migration also affect employment.

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Article provided by El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos in its journal Estudios Económicos.

Volume (Year): 23 (2008)
Issue (Month): 1 ()
Pages: 3-23
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Handle: RePEc:emx:esteco:v:23:y:2008:i:1:p:3-23

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Keywords: Migration; Mexico; labor outcomes; MxFLS;

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  1. Gordon H. Hanson, 2003. "What Has Happened to Wages in Mexico since NAFTA?," NBER Working Papers 9563, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. David Mckenzie & Hillel Rapoport, 2004. "Network Effects and the Dynamics of Migration and Inequality: Theory and Evidence from Mexico," Working Papers 2004-3, Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University.
  3. Belinda I. Reyes & Laura Mameesh, 2002. "Why Does Immigrant Trip Duration Vary Across U.S. Destinations?," Social Science Quarterly, Southwestern Social Science Association, vol. 83(2), pages 580-593.
  4. Joshua Angrist & Alan Krueger, 2001. "Instrumental Variables and the Search for Identification: From Supply and Demand to Natural Experiments," Working Papers 834, Princeton University, Department of Economics, Industrial Relations Section..
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  1. Trends in Mexican Migration
    by Seth Gitter in the blog of diminishing returns on 2011-07-06 15:11:00
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  1. Raymundo M. Campos Vázquez & Jaime Lara Lara, 2011. "Self-Selection Patterns among Return Migrants: Mexico 1990-2010," Serie documentos de trabajo del Centro de Estudios Económicos 2011-09, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos.

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