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Title

The Impact of Return Migration to Mexico

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Publication Title

Estudios Económicos

Volume Number

23

Issue Number

1

Abstract

Hundreds of thousands of Mexicans leave their country each year for the United States. Almost half these migrants return to Mexico within twelve months. Using a sample of working-aged males from (MxFLS) we find that being a return migrant affects the probability of employment. In states along the US border return migrants are less likely to be employed and those in the Central and Capital areas more likely. But these effects disappear when we correct for the fact that factors that determine migration also affect employment.

ISSN

0188-6916

First Page

3

Last Page

23

Link Out URL

https://www.jstor.org/stable/40311536

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