NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Mexican Immigration Pre-Conference

George Borjas, Organizer

August 6 and 7, 2004

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 6:

12:00 PM Lunch

12:30 PM FRANCINE BLAU, Cornell University and NBER

LAWRENCE KAHN, Cornell University

Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans

1:10 PM GORDON HANSON, UC, San Diego and NBER

Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earnings in Mexico

1:50 PM Break

2:00 PM ROBERT FAIRLIE, UC, Santa Cruz

CHRISTOPHER WOODRUFF, UC, San Diego

Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States

2:40 PM DAVID CARD, UC, Berkeley and NBER

ETHAN LEWIS, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants in the 1990s: Patterns and Impacts

3:20 PM Break

3:40 PM KURT UNGER, CIDE

Economic Development and Mexican Out-Migration

4:20 PM SUSAN MATERER-RICHTER and J. EDWARD TAYLOR, UC, Davis

ANTONIO YUNEZ NAUDE, Colegio de Mexico

NAFTA and Mexican Out-Migration

5:00 PM Adjourn

6:30 PM Group Dinner

Davio's at the Royal Sonesta Hotel

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7:

8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

9:00 AM GEORGE BORJAS and LAWRENCE KATZ, Harvard University and NBER

The Evolution of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. Workforce, 1900-2000

9:40 AM PABLO IBARRARAN, UC, Berkeley

DARREN LUBOTSKY, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The Socioeconomic Status of Mexican Migrant Families: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census

10:20 AM Break

10:40 AM EDWARD LAZEAR, Stanford University and NBER

The Slow Assimilation of Mexicans in the United States

11:20 AM BRIAN DUNCAN, University of Colorado at Denver

STEPHEN TREJO, University of Texas at Austin

Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans

12:00 PM Adjourn

7/20/04