Journal of Regional Science
Volume 48, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 525-545

Changes in the relative earnings gap between natives and immigrants along the U.S.-Mexico border (Article)

Dávila A.* , Mora M.T.
  • a Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539, United States
  • b Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business Administration, The University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, TX 78539, United States

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. © 2008 Blackwell Publishing, Inc.

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census wage gap immigrant racial disparity border region United States North America
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DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2008.00562.x
ISSN: 00224146
Cited by: 6
Original Language: English