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Karin Mayr. Johannes Kepler University (Linz, Austria)
Giovanni Peri. University of California, Davis and National Bureau of Economic Research
Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the perspective of international migration increases the expected …
Monica W. Varsanyi. School of Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University
Whereas the federal government has exclusive authority over immigration in the United States, during the past decade (and particularly since 9/11), many cities have …
Tim Mechlinski. University of California, Santa Barbara
This paper concerns the social process of mobility control in four West African countries: Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Ghana. Mobility has long been an important aspect of …
David P. Lindstrom. Brown University
Silvia Giorguli-Saucedo. El Colegio de México
This study examines the interrelationship between migration and marital fertility, using a bi-national sample of retrospective life histories collected in Mexican origin communities and U.S. destination …
Johanna Dunaway. Sam Houston State University
Marisa A. Abrajano. University of California, San Diego
Regina P. Branton. Rice University
While the importance of agenda setting has been well-documented (Baumgartner and Jones 1995, Iyengar 1991), it is unclear …
José Martínez. University of California, San Diego
In this paper, I examine several market liberalization measures taken in Mexico in the first half of the 90’s and their impact on municipalities’ migration incidence. Specifically, I look …
Susan Gordon. Ben Gurion University, Beersheva Israel
The issues of how to integrate immigrants and ensure the integrity of citizenship have become passionate topics of public discourse and policy debate in recent years in a number …
Author: Maritza Caicedo Riazcos, Ph.D. Candidate in Demography, El Colegio de México
Abstract: This paper examines the salary gap between the native-born population in the United States and immigrants from Latin America and the Caribbean. Using …
