International migration and the gender wage gap

Raymundo M. Campos-Vasquez and Jaime Lara
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Raymundo M. Campos-Vasquez: El Colegio de Mexico, Centro de Estudios Economicos
Jaime Lara: Universidad de Monterrey, Division de Negocios

JODE - Journal of Demographic Economics, 2021, vol. 87, issue 2, 213-232

Abstract: This article analyzes the effect of international migration on the wage gap between women and men who remain in Mexico. We use historical distance to the U.S. border over early twentieth-century railroad networks as an exogenous factor causing changes in the relative supply of men and women, due to predominately male migration. A 10% decrease in the relative labor supply of men tends to increase the wage gap between women and men by approximately 1.1 percentage points, suggesting that they are not perfect substitutes. However, the results imply a greater elasticity of substitution between men and women than that suggested by previous studies.

Keywords: Gender gap; Labor demand; Mexican migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 J16 J23 J82 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-06-01
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