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Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States

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  • Fernando A. Lozano
  • Mary J. Lopez

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Since 1986, the United States has made considerable efforts to curb undocumented immigration across the US--Mexico border, resulting in an increase in migration costs for undocumented immigrants from Mexico and placing a particularly heavy burden on undocumented immigrant women. Using data from the 1990, 2000 Decennial Census and the 2006--8 American Community Survey, this study finds three effects of rising migration costs for immigrants from Mexico: (1) A decrease in the relative flow of older and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; (2) An increase in the skill composition of immigrant women relative to men; and (3) An increase, due to stronger positive selection, in the average earnings of those groups most affected by increased migration costs, particularly women. This research has important implications in light of the barriers and increasing dangers that women across the globe may face when migrating.

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  • Fernando A. Lozano & Mary J. Lopez, 2013. "Border Enforcement and Selection of Mexican Immigrants in the United States," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 76-110, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:femeco:v:19:y:2013:i:1:p:76-110
    DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2012.752313
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    1. Thabiso Lucky Malatji, 2022. "Cross Border Migration as a Poverty Alleviation Strategy; a Comparative Study between Immigrants from Zimbabwe to South Africa and Mexico to United States of America," Eurasian Journal of Social Sciences, Eurasian Publications, vol. 10(4), pages 226-235.
    2. Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes & José R. Bucheli, 2023. "Implications of restrictive asylum policies: evidence from metering along the U.S.-Mexico Border," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 36(3), pages 1941-1962, July.
    3. Sarah Bohn & Todd Pugatch, 2015. "Erratum to: U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 52(5), pages 1571-1571, October.
    4. Hanaček, Ksenija & Roy, Brototi & Avila, Sofia & Kallis, Giorgos, 2020. "Ecological economics and degrowth: Proposing a future research agenda from the margins," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 169(C).
    5. Altangerel, Khulan, 2019. "Essays on immigration policy," Other publications TiSEM 954c6300-249e-496c-8cef-0, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.

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    JEL classification:

    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
    • J2 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor
    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
    • J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers

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