Mexican immigration to the United States
By: edited by George J. Borjas.
Contributors: Borjas, George J.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780226066325
Subjects: Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Congresses; Mexican Americans -- Economic conditions -- Congresses; Mexican Americans -- Employment -- Congresses; Alien labor, Mexican -- United States -- Congresses; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses; Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses; Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "This volume consists of papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in February 2005"--P. ix.

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