Immigrant decisions concerning duration of stay and migratory frequency

Hill, John K.

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“…3 However, if one wants to estimate how border enforcement affects the stock of illegal migrants, the variable of interest is migration net flow: the effect of border controls on migration inflow is likely to differ from its impact on the net flow, if enforcement also changes illegal migrants' outflow. The fact that tighter enforcement, which causes an increase in migration costs, affects both the likelihood and the duration of an undocumented migration is illustrated in Hill (1987). Kossoudji (1992) uses a sample of repeated illegal Mexican migrants to estimate the effect of past apprehension on current migration frequency and duration.…”

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US Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration

Angelucci

2012

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in U.S. Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration Manuela Angelucci D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. This paper investigates the effect of U.S. border enforcement on the net flow of Mexican undocumented migration. It shows how this effect is theoretically ambiguous, given that increases in border controls deter prospective migrants from crossing the border illegally, but lengthen the duration of current illegal migrations. It then estimates the impact of enforcement on 1972-1993 migration net flows by merging aggregate enforcement data with micro data on potential and current illegal Mexican migrants. The econometric model accounts for the endogeneity of border controls using the Drug Enforcement Administration budget as an instrumental variable. Both the inflow and outflow of illegal Mexican migration are highly sensitive to changes in border enforcement. The estimates of the enforcement overall effect on illegal migration's net flow range across different specifications, from a decline -about 35% of the size of the effect on the inflow -to an increase. Thus, they suggest that border enforcement may not be an effective means to reduce the level of the illegal alien population in the United States. JEL Classification:F22, J61, K42, O15

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“…This is explained in further detail below. 26 There are roughly 10,000 potential migrants, corresponding to about 135,000 person-year units in the sample.…”

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US Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration

Angelucci

2012

Economic Development and Cultural Change

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“…5 Incomplete information can be of job searchers about the destination labor market (Herzog and Schottman 1982) or of employers about the quality of workers (Katz andStark 1987, Hendricks 2001). Heterogeneity can be of migrants in preference for origin (Hill 1987, Djajic and Milbourne 1988, Ra¤alhüschen 1992, Cuecuecha 2006 or in aversion to inequality in a context of incomplete insurance markets (Stark 1984, Stark andYitzhaki 1988). Higher returns in origin countries can be to physical capital (Borjas andBratsberg 1996, Lindstrom 1996) or to human capital (Dustmann and Kirchkamp 2002), as looser credit constraints (Mesnard 2004) or as higher purchasing power (Dustmann 1997, Stark, Helmenstein and Yegorov 1997, Dustmann 2003.…”

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International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US

Rendón

Cuecuecha

2009

Rev Econ Household

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit company supported by Deutsche Post World Net. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its research networks, research support, and visitors and doctoral programs. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in International Job Search: Mexicans In and Out of the US Sílvio Rendon Alfredo Cuecuecha D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of the migration process. We estimate this model by Simulated Method of Moments (SMM) and find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs reduces migration rates in half, while subsidizing return migration in $300 reduces migration rates of older migrants but increases migration rates of younger migrants.JEL Classification: F22, J64, E20

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“…The issue of temporariness has been addressed primarily from the individual migrant's point of view, with the objective of characterizing the determinants of optimum duration of stay abroad (Hill 1987;Stark et. al.…”

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Does Temporary Migration Have to Be Permanent?

Amin

Mattoo

2005

SSRN Journal

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The choice between temporary and permanent migration is today central to the design of migration policies. We draw a distinction between the two types of migration on the basis of the associated social cost and the dynamics of learning by migrants. We find that unilateral migration policies are globally inefficient because they lead to too much permanent migration and too little temporary and overall migration. Existing international agreements on labor mobility, such as the WTO's General Agreement on Trade in Services, have failed to do better because they seek primarily to induce host countries to make commitments to allow entry. Instead, Pareto gains and more liberal migration could be achieved through multilateral agreements that enable host countries to commit to repatriation. JEL: J24, F22.

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Immigrant decisions concerning duration of stay and migratory frequency

Cited by 134 publications

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US Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration

US Border Enforcement and the Net Flow of Mexican Illegal Migration

International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US

Does Temporary Migration Have to Be Permanent?

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