CHANGES IN THE RELATIVE EARNINGS GAP BETWEEN NATIVES AND IMMIGRANTS ALONG THE U.S.‐MEXICO BORDER* |
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| Authors: | Alberto Dávila Marie T. Mora |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, The University of Texas—Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539. E‐mail: adavila@utpa.edu;2. Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, The University of Texas—Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539. E‐mail: mtmora@utpa.edu |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT Using 1990 and 2000 U.S. census data, this study investigates changes in immigrant/native earnings disparities for workers in U.S. cities along the international border with Mexico vis‐à‐vis the U.S. interior during the 1990s. Our findings—based on estimating earnings functions and employing the Juhn‐Murphy‐Pierce (1993, JPE) wage decomposition technique—indicate that the average earnings of Mexican immigrants along the U.S.‐Mexico border improved relative to those accrued by their counterparts in the U.S. interior and by otherwise similar U.S.‐born Mexican Americans between 1990 and 2000. However, when comparing Mexican‐born workers to U.S.‐born non‐Hispanic whites, the immigrant border‐earnings penalty remained statistically unchanged. |
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