Illegal Migration from Mexico to the United States

By Gordon H. Hanson. 2006

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

The Great Mexican Emigration (2010, neutral): “…authorities, such as those introduced by the Immigration Reform and Control Act in the late 1980s and the expansion in U.S. border fortifications in the 1990s (Hanson, 2006), provided the impact of these changes is experienced in a common way across cohorts in our study (those aged 16 to 50).”
The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor (2008, neutral): “Illegal entry is also subject to costs, with fees for smuggler services to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in 2006 and 2007 averaging around $3000 (Hanson 2006) and fees to migrate from China and other distant countries to the United States surpassing $30,000.”
From Individual Attitudes towards Migrants to Migration Policy Outcomes: Theory and Evidence (2008, neutral): “In particular, as Hanson and Spilimbergo (2001) have shown, US border enforcement softens when the sectors that use illegal immigrants expand.”
US Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration (2012, neutral): “For the 1990s there is more detailed information: between 1992 and 2002, 56% of new legal immigrants are status adjusters (Hanson 2006).”
A Declining Farm Workforce: Analysis of Panel Data from Rural Mexico (2016, neutral): “Hanson (2006) reviews the literature regarding Mexico-U.”
Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis (2020, neutral): “Another piece of evidence suggesting higher inflows in 1995 is the evolution of the number of apprehensions over the 1990s (data from Gordon Hanson’s website, see Hanson (2006) or Hanson and Spilimbergo (1999)).”
International Migration and the Developing World (2010, positive): “Relative to purely anonymous trade, the presence of group ties increases the volume of trade and GDP in the trading countries, though individuals lacking group ties are worse off (because they lose access to their more productive potential trading partners). Migration is an obvious mechanism through”