Emigration and Wages in Source Countries: Evidence from Mexico

By Prachi Mishra. Social Science Research Network, 2006

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This paper empirically examines the effect on wages in Mexico of Mexican emigration to the United States, using data from the Mexican and United States censuses from 1970-2000. The main result in the paper is that emigration has a strong and positive effect on Mexican wages. There is also evidence for increasing wage inequality in Mexico due to emigration. Simple welfare calculations based on a labor demand-supply framework suggest that the aggregate welfare loss to Mexico due to emigration is small. However, there is a significant distributional impact between labor and other factors.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Does migration promote democratization? Evidence from the Mexican transition (2012, background): “Mishra (2007) finds that emigration had a strong positive effect on Mexican wages.”
The Effect of Immigration on the School Performance of Natives: Cross Country Evidence Using PISA Test Scores (2013, neutral): “1 Borjas (2003), Mishra (2007) and Aydemir and Borjas (2007) among others use a similar strategy to estimate the impact of the share of immigrants on wages.”
Remittances, migration, and social development (2007, background): “Although inequality-increasing effects have been found in various studies at the regional (Adams 1989) and national (Mishra 2007) levels, this mechanism is not inevitable.”
Do remittances improve income inequality? An instrumental variable quantile analysis of the Kenyan case (2016, neutral): “In fact, the distributional impact of remittances constitutes a key debate in the migration literature, with results from cross-national and country studies ranging from documenting an adverse impact of remittances on income inequality (Stark et al., 1986; Adams, 1989; Barham and Boucher, 1998; Mish”
Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration (2011, methodology): “For example, Mishra (2007) applies the framework to the Mexican labor market and finds significant positive wage effects of emigration on wages in Mexico.”
Tradable Immigration Quotas (2014, neutral): “For example, in the case of Mexico, they neglect the induced e¤ects of migration on poverty through increased wages for low-skill workers (Mishra, 2007), consumption of remittance income, and the fact that there is evidence of negative selection into migration both on observables and unobservables,…”
Female Migration: A Way Out of Discrimination (2015, background): “Women’s labor market conditions, for instance, have been shown to be influenced by migration movements (Mishra, 2007; Borjas, 2008; Docquier, Marfouk, Salomone, and Sekkat, 2012).”