2003/05/01 by K. Munshi · 1,806 citations
Social Sciences · #Demographic economics #Economics #Geography #Job market #Labour economics #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy #Sample (material) #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
paper · doi:10.1162/003355303321675455
published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118(2), 549-599 (Oxford University Press)
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This paper attempts to identify job networks among Mexican migrants in the U. S. labor market. The empirical analysis uses data on migration patterns and labor market outcomes, based on a sample of individuals belonging to multiple origin-communities in Mexico, over a long period of time. Each community's network is measured by the proportion of the sampled individuals who are located at the destination (the United States) in any year. We verify that the same individual is more likely to be employed and to hold a higher paying nonagricultural job when his network is exogenously larger, by including individual fixed effects in the employment and occupation regressions and by using rainfall in the origin-community as an instrument for the size of the network at the destination.