International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US

Abstract

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The Economics of Temporary Migrations

“…Wahba (2001Wahba ( , 2003 and Wahba and Zenou (2012) for Egypt. Another valuable source of retrospective migration histories is the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), which has been widely used in both the sociological (e.g., Massey, Durand, and Malone, 2002;Gentsch and Massey, 2014) and economic literature (e.g., Deléchat, 2001;Colussi, 2003;Rendon and Cuecuecha, 2010;Thom, 2010;Angelucci, 2012;Lessem, 2013;Reinhold andThom, 2013, Nakajima, 2014a,b (Brücker et al, 2014).…”

“…There are few similar models developed elsewhere (e.g., Deléchat, 2001;Colussi, 2003;Bellemare, 2007;van Baalen and Müller, 2008;Thom, 2010;Rendon and Cuecuecha, 2010;Kırdar, 2012;Lessem, 2013;Nakajima, 2014a,b) that address aspects of temporary migration. Using this model, we first identify and graphically simulate the possible triggers of temporary migration and then, while referencing pertinent studies, develop the implications of return plans for some economic behaviors, including human capital investment, labor supply, and savings.…”

“…To do this, several recent papers use frameworks similar to ours. These studies include Deléchat (2001), Colussi (2003), Thom (2010), Rendon and Cuecuecha (2010), Lessem (2013) andNakajima (2014a,b) for Mexican-U.S. migration, and Bellemare (2007), van Baalen and Müller (2008),…”

U.S. Border Enforcement and Mexican Immigrant Location Choice

“…Mexican immigration to the U.S. is characterized by high rates of circular migration, with migrants cycling back and forth between countries with some regularity (Rendon and Cuecuecha 2010). For migrants currently at a U.S. destination, greater enforcement increases the cost of return migration to Mexico by making it more difficult to engage in circular migration.…”

Las características educativas de los emigrantes mexicanos a Estados Unidos

“…Por otro lado, para Estados Unidos representa una consecuencia no deseada de su política inmigratoria de cerrar las fronteras, pues esto aumenta los costos de emigración, lo cual se sabe que los emigrantes responden a dicho aumento prolongando sus estadías en Estados Unidos (Reyes, Johnson y Van Swearingen, 2002;Rendon y Cuecuecha, 2010). Además se ha mostrado que el grupo con cero años se mantiene por más tiempo en Estados Unidos, lo cual genera para Estados Unidos la necesidad de pensar en políticas que le permitan a dicho grupo de emigrantes mexicanos adaptarse y asimilarse a Estados Unidos.…”