"Consists of papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in February 2005"--P. ix. "Contains the studies presented at the fourth NBER conference"--P. 2. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The evolution of the Mexican-born workforce in the United States / George J. Borjas and Lawrence F. Katz -- Gender and assimilation among Mexican Americans / Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn -- Mexican assimilation in the United States / Edward P. Lazear -- Mexican entrepereneurship: a comparison of self-employment in Mexico and the United States / Robert W. Fairlie and Christopher Woodruff -- Mexican immigration and self-selection: new evidence from the 2000 Mexican census / Pablo Ibarraran and Darren Lubotsky -- The diffusion of Mexican immigrants during the 1990s: explanations and impacts / David Card and Ethan G. Lewis -- Ethnic identification, intermarriage, and unmeasured progress by Mexican Americans / Brian Duncan and Stephen J. Trejo -- Impacts of policy reforms on labor migration from rural Mexico to the United States / Susan M. Richter, J. Edward Taylor, and Antonio Yunez-Naude -- Emigration, labor supply, and earnings in Mexico / Gordon H. Hanson.
Series:
A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
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