Labor market issues along the U.S.-Mexico border
By: edited by Marie T. Mora and Alberto Dávila.
Contributors: Mora, Marie T., 1969-; Davila, Alberto E.
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Tucson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780816527007
Subjects: Labor market -- Mexican-American Border Region; Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions; Mexican-American Border Region -- Commerce; Mexican-American Border Region -- Emigration and immigration
Other titles: Labor market issues along the United States-Mexico border
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A fixed border's shifting meanings: the United States and Mexico, 1821 to 2007 / Anthony P. Mora; title: Labor market evolution / Thomas M. Fullerton Jr., James H. Holcomb, and Angel L. Molina Jr.; title: NAFTA and economic activity along the U.S.-Mexico border / James T. Peach and Richard V. Adkisson; title: Labor Market Dynamics and a look inside border Maquiladoras / John Sargent, Melissa Najera, and Linda Matthews; title: Evolution of average returns to education in the Mexican northern border states / Hector J. Villarreal; title: Earned income along the U.S.-Mexico border / Alberto Dávila, Marie T. Mora, and Alma D. Hales; title: Wage determinants of Mexican immigrant workers along the U.S.-Mexico border / Rogelio Sáenz, Lorena Murga, and Maria Cristina Morales; title: Differences between Mexican migration to the U.S. border and the interior: evidence from Mexican survey data / Pia M. Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny, and Leslie Lukens; title: How do Mexican migrants affect public coffers? Changes in the utilization of and contribution to public benefits in U.S. border states / Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Cynthia Bansak; title: The earnings of U.S.-resident cross-border workers in 2000 and 2005 / Marie T. Mora and Alberto Dávila; title: Comparing U.S.-Mexican border unemployment rates to non-border large MSAs / André Varella Mollick; title: Some policy implications for the U.S.-Mexico border region / Alberto Dávila and Marie T. Mora.