International Job Search: Mexicans In and Out of the US

Silvio Rendon and Alfredo Cuecuecha ()
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Alfredo Cuecuecha: ITAM, Mexico

No 3219, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of the migration process. We estimate this model by Simulated Method of Moments (SMM) and find that migration practically disappears if Mexico has American arrival rates while employed. Doubling migration costs reduces migration rates in half, while subsidizing return migration in $300 reduces migration rates of older migrants but increases migration rates of younger migrants.

Keywords: job turnover; job search; international migration; savings; structural estimation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E20 F22 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2007-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-lab, nep-mac and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 53-82

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Journal Article: International job search: Mexicans in and out of the US (2010)
Working Paper: International Job Search: Mexicans in and out of the U.S (2007)
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