Mexican immigration to the United States [electronic resource] / edited by George J. Borjas. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. - ix, 338 p. : ill. - A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report . - National Bureau of Economic Research conference report. .

"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.

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.


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Foreign workers, Mexican--United States--Congresses.
Immigrants--Economic conditions--United States--Congresses.
Immigrants--Social conditions--United States--Congresses.
Mexican Americans--Cultural assimilation--Congresses.
Mexican Americans--Economic conditions--Congresses.
Mexican Americans--Employment--Congresses.
Mexican Americans--Social conditions--Congresses.


Mexico--Emigration and immigration--Congresses.
United States--Emigration and immigration--Congresses.


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