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Title: The Great Mexican Emigration

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two-fifths of Mexican labor flows to the United States over the last two decades of the twentieth century. Net emigration rates by Mexican stat birth year cohort display a strong positive correlation with the initial size of the Mexican cohort relative to the corresponding U.S. cohort. In states with long histories of emigration, the effects of cohort size on emigration are relatively strong, consistent with the existence of preexisting networks.

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Authors: McIntosh, Craig; Hanson, Gordon H.

Periodical (Full): The review of economics and statistics

Issue: 4

Volume: 92

Pages: 798-810

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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