International Migration, Self‐Selection, and the Distribution of Wages: Evidence from Mexico and the United States

By Daniel Chiquiar, Gordon H. Hanson. Journal of Political Economy, 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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US Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration (2012, positive): “This evidence of high and rising migration costs that select a better pool of illegal migrants provides a rationale for Chiquiar and Hanson’s (2005) findings that Mexican migrants who live in the United States in the 1990s and 2000s are not negatively self-selected: as the costs get higher, low-huma”
Fair Trade/Organic Coffee, Rural Livelihoods, and the "Agrarian Question": Southern Mexican Coffee Families in Transition (2011, neutral): “While US labor markets may offer low returns on secondary education obtained in Mexico (Chiquiar & Hanson, 2005), studies have estimated sizeable returns to secondary education within Mexico between roughly 8% and 12% per year (Chiquiar, 2003; Schultz, 2004; and Mehta and Villarreal, 2008).”
The economics of human trafficking and labour migration: Micro-evidence from Eastern Europe (2010, background): “…2007, Väyrynen 2005, Aronowitz 2001, Ruggiero 1997). selection into migration is highly controversial.14 However, recent studies agree in that larger migration flows can foster negative self-selection (Beine et al. forthcoming, Chiquiar and Hanson 2005 and McKenzie and Rapoport, forthcoming).”
Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data (2013, neutral): “…placed a higher value on northern amenities (Margo 1990, Vigdor 2002), in which the poorest southerners were discouraged by fixed migration costs (Chiquiar and Hanson 2005), or in which returns to ability (apart from 40 In 1930, we observe the stock of migrants, age 20 to 60, but not the…”
Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings (2007, background): “Although systematic data are not collected on the characteristics of emigrants from the United States, past research and tabulations in Sec- 14 Self-selection and the decision to migrate from Mexico to the United States are explored in Chiquiar and Hanson (2005) and Ibarraran and Lubotsky (2007).”
Differences in labour market outcomes between natives, refugees and other migrants in the UK (2018, background): “Moreover, the costs of migration could be lower for the more educated (Chiquiar and Hanson, 2005).”
Report No. 19: Geographic Mobility in the European Union: Optimising its Economic and Social Benefits (2008, background): “Propensities of expected mobility decline in age for all three types of migration and the negative marginal impact of age is statistically significant at conventional levels.50 48 For recent examples see Chiquiar and Hanson (2002) and Burda et al (1998).”
Poles Apart? EU Enlargement and the Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants in the UK (2006, background): “In theoretical terms, Chiquiar and Hanson (2005) argue that the financial costs of migration are not constant across individuals and these may deter some low skilled individuals from migrating in spite of the potentially high returns on offer.”
Remittances, household expenditure and investment in Guatemala (2005, background): “24 More educated people can also face lower costs of migration (Chiquiar & Hanson, 2005).”