Self-selection patterns among return migrants: Mexico 1990-2010

Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime

doi:10.1186/2193-9039-1-8

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“…Circular migrants became increasing more negatively selected on educational attainment across the four time points from 1992 to 2009. These results are consistent with the findings of Campos-Vasquez and Lara (2012) for returning migrants in the 1990 to 2010 Mexican Censuses.…”

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Two Decades of Negative Educational Selectivity of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Rendall

Parker

2014

Population & Development Rev

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Immigration is commonly considered to be selective of more able individuals. Studies comparing the educational attainment of Mexican immigrants in the United States to that of the Mexican resident population support this characterization. Upward educational-attainment biases in both coverage and measurement, however, may be substantial in U.S. data sources. Moreover, differences in educational attainment by place size are very large within Mexico, and U.S. data sources provide no information on immigrants’ places of origin within Mexico. To address these problems, we use multiple sources of nationally-representative Mexican survey data to re-evaluate the educational selectivity of working-age Mexican migrants to the United States over the 1990s and 2000s. We document disproportionately rural and small-urban-area origins of Mexican migrants and a steep positive gradient of educational attainment by place size. We show that together these conditions induced strongly negative educational selection of Mexican migrants throughout the 1990s and 2000s. We interpret this finding as consistent with low returns to the education of unauthorized migrants and few opportunities for authorized migration.

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Two Decades of Negative Educational Selectivity of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Rendall

Parker

2014

Population & Development Rev

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“…Such concerns would be consistent with evidence from Campos-Vazquez and Lara (2012) showing that return migrants are negatively selected relative to non-migrants in Mexico over this period of time.…”

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Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources

Antman

2015

J Popul Econ

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This paper considers the relationship between international migration and gender discrimination through the lens of decision-making power over intrahousehold resource allocation. The endogeneity of migration is addressed with a difference-in-differences style identification strategy and a model with household fixed effects. The results suggest that while a migrant household head is away, a greater share of resources is spent on girls relative to boys and his spouse commands greater decision-making power. Once the head returns home, however, a greater share of resources goes to boys and there is suggestive evidence of greater authority for the head of household.

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“…However, any increase in the extent of overeducation of returning migrants relative to international emigrants still captures both the selectivity of migrants returning from the United States and the effect of their work experience while living abroad. 9 Research by Campos-Vazquez and Lara (2012) and Reinhold and Thom (2013) suggests that migrants returning to Mexico may have gained occupation-specific skills. These skills would allow them to obtain jobs in occupations for which they would otherwise be insufficiently educated, leading to lower average levels of education compared with emigrants employed in the same occupation.…”

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The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International and Internal Migrants in Mexico, 2005–2012

Villarreal

2016

Demography

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Recent studies have found international migrants from developing countries such as Mexico to be negatively selected by education; that is, they are less educated than those who stay behind. Moving beyond the question of whether migrants are negatively selected by education overall, I examine how migrants are selected compared with others in similar jobs. Using data from a nationally representative panel survey of Mexican households, I find that men who migrate abroad have significantly higher levels of education than nonmigrants in the same occupation. Because men who are overeducated for their occupation tend to receive lower wages than those employed in occupations commensurate with their education, and are also more dissatisfied with their jobs, overeducation may encourage men to emigrate. Results from the regression models, which account for differential selectivity into employment, indicate that internal migrants within Mexico also have higher educational levels than nonmigrants in the same occupation prior to migrating but comparable levels of education afterward. Migrating internally, therefore, appears to allow men to improve their occupational placement. Finally, I examine changes in migrants’ education over time and find evidence that the education-occupation mismatch has increased among Mexican emigrants in the years following the 2008 U.S. recession.

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Self-selection patterns among return migrants: Mexico 1990-2010

Cited by 25 publications

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Two Decades of Negative Educational Selectivity of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Two Decades of Negative Educational Selectivity of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Gender discrimination in the allocation of migrant household resources

The Education-Occupation Mismatch of International and Internal Migrants in Mexico, 2005–2012

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