NEW EVIDENCE ON EMIGRANT SELECTION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fernandez-Huertas Moraga, Jesus
• 署名单位: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC); CSIC - Institut d'Analisi Economica (IAE); Barcelona School of Economics
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6535
• DOI: 10.1162/REST_a_00050
• 发表日期: 2011-02
• 页码: 72-96
• 关键词: self-selection; mexican migrants; migration; wages; ENFORCEMENT; immigration; earnings

摘要

This paper examines the extent to which Mexican emigrants to the United States are negatively selected. Previous studies have been limited by the lack of nationally representative longitudinal data. This one uses a newly available household survey, that identifies emigrants before they leave. On average, U.S.-bound Mexican emigrants from 2000 to 2004 earn lower wages and have less (more for females) schooling than nonmigrant Mexicans, evidence of negative selection. This argues against Chiquiar and Hanson's (2005) findings. The discrepancy is primarily due to an undercount of unskilled migrants in U. S. sources and secondarily to the omission of unobservables in their methodology.