The Impact of Mexican Migration on the United States and Mexican Economies and Labor Markets

1987 ◽  
pp. 103-136
Author(s):  
Juan Diez-Canedo Ruiz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
The Impact

Mexicali’s Exceptionalism

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Bracero Program ◽  
Border Towns ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Official Records

This chapter examines the impact of Mexican migration to the United States during the era of the Bracero Program (1942–64). It addresses the question of why migration to border towns increased during the 1940s in spite of U.S. immigration restrictions. Existing oral histories collected by the Bracero History Archive of migrant and local Baja families enriched the author's understanding of the ways in which families migrated and looked for work and performed gender roles in Mexico and in the United States. The memories of braceros provided a window into the daily lives and struggles experienced by millions of Mexican workers who migrated to the United States, stories often suppressed in official records.

The Effect of Rainfall on Migration from Mexico to the United States

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 890-909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerónimo Barrios Puente ◽  
Francisco Perez ◽  
Robert J. Gitter
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Satellite Data ◽  
Normal Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Percent Decrease

There has been very little work on the impact of rainfall on migration from Mexico or even elsewhere. We use satellite data from NASA to examine the effect of the lagged level of rainfall relative to an area's historical average, on migration from small Mexican communities to the United States. Controlling for the level of education, proportion married, and historic migration levels, we find higher levels of rainfall significantly reduce Mexican migration to the United States and a 20 percentage point higher-than-normal level of rainfall leads to a predicted 10.3 percent decrease in migration.

State labor sponsorship: The role of nation state regulation in undermining migrant employment standards

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-319
Author(s):  
SaunJuhi Verma
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
North Africa ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Migration Patterns ◽  
Temporary Worker ◽  
The Impact

Temporary worker programs are on the rise both across the globe and particularly within the United States. Established research focuses upon the impact of immigration policies as well as outcomes for migrant communities within the labor market. In contrast, my work draws attention to the population of citizen-workers who participate in cyclical migration patterns within transnational labor markets. My multi-site ethnography, consisting of 109 interviews with US guest workers, oil industry employers, and Indian labor brokers, evaluates the impact of temporary worker programs on migration patterns from India to the Middle East to the United States. (In this article, I use the counter-naming of the Middle East as Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). I avoid use of colonial terminology such as Middle East to refer to the countries in the region of North Africa and West Asia. The language is archaic and perpetuates the historic referencing of Europe as the central geographic reference point.). In particular, the study evaluated a multi-country migrant recruitment chain to address the question: How does the non-citizen visa situate migrants as global labor within the transnational economy? Findings identify that non-citizen visa pathway is a contemporary mode of governance through which labor is traded among third parties. The article outlines the complicity of nation-state regulation in shaping limited economic outcomes for migrants within cyclical multi-country labor markets.

scholarly journals Women's Economic Advancement in the Twentieth-Century United States

2006 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 480-486
Author(s):  
MARTHA J. BAILEY
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Women's Participation ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Women’S Labor Supply

The integration of women into formal labor markets was one of the most salient changes of the twentieth century. The “female century,” in the words ofThe Economist, witnessed an extraordinary transformation of women's opportunities and outcomes both in and outside the household. My dissertation explores both the causes and the consequences of women's move from home to market in the United States during three episodes of rapid change. It begins by documenting demand-side shifts during the 1940s that increased the earnings and occupational choices of African-American women; then demonstrates the impact of contraceptive technology on the extent and intensity of women's participation in the formal labor market after 1960; and, finally, estimates the consequences of shifts in women's labor supply for the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s.

scholarly journals The impact of product and labour market deregulation

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-37
Author(s):  
Armend Muja
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Incremental Innovation ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact

Economists have often talked about the European Paradox:” - Europe having the necessary knowledge and research but failing to utilize these advantages and bring them to the markets. The perception, largely attributable to the media reporting, is that Europe lags behind the United States in innovation. While it is true that most of the e-commerce innovations were developed in the United States, Europe’s economies did well over the 1990s despite the lack of major breakthroughs in high-tech sphere. Thus, it is hard to say that Europe is facing an innovation crisis, and I will argue that Europe has other advantages that make it competitive globally. While Europe might not have as much success in innovation as the United States, it nevertheless, has been successful in more developed and mature segments of the markets. Moreover, I will argue that country’s specialization depends on the setup of the institutions in the political economy. The countries utilize their comparative institutional advantage (CIA) to maintain competitive globally. Finally, I will argue against the idea of drastic deregulation of the product and labor markets in Europe. Doing so would be like shooting yourself in the foot since individual European countries would lose their comparative institutional advantage that allows them to stay competitive globally in the market for incremental innovation products.

scholarly journals Untangling the Health Impacts of Mexico – U.S. Migration

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-179
Author(s):  
David L Ortmeyer ◽  
Michael A Quinn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Health Effect ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mexican Migration ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Objective Health ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Impact

Research has found that immigrant health has a tendency to decline with time spent in the United States.  Using data from the Mexican Migration Project from 2007-2014, this paper is the first to test the impact of domestic and international migration on different types of health measures.  Results find cumulative U.S. migration experience has a negative impact both on self-reported and objective health measures.  By contrast, the number of trips to the United States and migrations made within Mexico impact individual’s self-assessment of their health but not objective health measures.  The analyses suggest that differences in self-reported versus objective health measures may help to explain mixed results in the literature.  Results suggest that individual’s health will suffer considerably more from U.S. migrations than from migration within Mexico which is consistent with the acculturation hypothesis.  Not surprisingly, high levels of BMI and smoking are significant predictors of negative self-reported and objective health.  There is also a troubling significant negative trend in health over time observed in the sample. Taken as a whole, these results suggest that even short trips to the United States can have a negative health effect on immigrants if they are repeated.

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