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Title: Las características educativas de los emigrantes mexicanos a Estados Unidos

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Publication Year: 2010

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Abstract: This paper studies the self selection in educational characteristics of Mexicans migrating to the US. This is done to determine educational self–selection, changes in self–selection in the nineties, as well as the change in the self–selection in terms of the wage distribution. The paper applies econometric techniques that control for bias by the use of endogenous samples. There are four key findings: first, self selection in the nineties was intermediate; second, self selection in 2000 was in the extremes of the education distribution: at zero years and at more than 16 years of education; third, the largest changes in migration probability were experienced by those two groups; and fourth, despite the changes in migration probabilities, the change in self selection in terms of the wage distribution is a change towards intermediate selection.

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Authors: Mendoza, Alfredo Cuecuecha

Periodical (Full): EconoQuantum

Issue: 1

Volume: 7

Pages: 9-42

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration

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