NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Mexican Immigration to the United States


Mexican Immigration to the United States
George J. Borjas, editor

The University of Chicago Press, 2007
Cloth: $60.00
338 pages
ISBN: 978-0-226-06632-5; 0-226-06632-0 (cloth)

Some chapters may have appeared as NBER Working Papers, which are preliminary versions of the published papers.

    Table of Contents:

    Introduction, p. 1-12
    George J. Borjas

    1. The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States, p. 13-55
    George J. Borjas and Lawrence F. Katz

    2. Gender and Assimilation among Mexican Americans, p. 57-106
    Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn

    3. Mexican Assimilation in the United States, p. 107-122
    Edward P. Lazear

    4. Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States, p. 123-158
    Robert W. Fairlie and Christopher Woodruff

    5. Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census, p. 159-192
    Pablo Ibarraran and Darren Lubotsky

    6. The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants during the 1990s: Explanations and Impacts, p. 193-227
    David Card and Ethan G. Lewis

    7. Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans, p. 229-267
    Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo

    8. Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration from Rural Mexico to the United States, p. 269-288
    Susan M. Richter, J. Edward Taylor, and Antonio Yśnez-Naude

    9. Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earnings in Mexico, p. 289-328
    Gordon H. Hanson


 
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