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Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration: The Role of Migration Networks
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This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. A simple theoretical framework shows the impact of networks on migration incentives at different education levels and how this affects the composition of migrant skills. Empirically, we find positive or education-neutral selection in communities with weak migrant networks but negative self-selection in communities with stronger networks. This is consistent with high migration costs driving positive or intermediate self-selection, as advocated by Chiquiar and Hanson (2005), and with negative self-selection being driven by lower returns to education in the United States than in Mexico, as advocated by Borjas (1987).
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- Authors
- McKenzie, D., & Rapoport, H.
- Venue
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- 2010-11
- Volume
- 92
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 811-821
- ISSN
- 0034-6535 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9142
- OpenAlex
- W3124397807
- Cited by
- 616
- References
- 30
- FWCI
- 118.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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