Mexican Migration Project

Principal Investigator(s): Arp-Nisen, Jorge Durand, Universidad de Guadalajara. Depto. de Estudios Sobre Movimientos Sociales (DESMOS); Massey, Douglas S., Princeton University. Office of Population Research

Summary: Mexican Migration Project (MMP) is a yearly study of Mexican migrants that randomly samples households in communities throughout Mexico. After gathering social, demographic, and economic information on the household and its members, interviewers collect basic information on each person's first and last trip to the United States. From household heads, they compile a year-by-year history of United States migration and collect information about the last trip northward, focusing on emplo... (more info)

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Summary: Mexican Migration Project (MMP) is a yearly study of Mexican migrants that randomly samples households in communities throughout Mexico. After gathering social, demographic, and economic information on the household and its members, interviewers collect basic information on each person's first and last trip to the United States. From household heads, they compile a year-by-year history of United States migration and collect information about the last trip northward, focusing on employment, earnings, and use of United States social services.

Subject Terms: employment, household composition, households, income, migrants, population migration

Geographic Coverage: Mexico, Global

Data Collection Notes:

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2006

Quinn, Michael A. Relative Deprivation, Wage Differentials and Mexican Migration. Review of Development Economics. 10, (1), 135 -

2006

Quinn, Michael A., Rubb, Stephen . Mexico's labor market: The importance of education-occupation matching on wages and productivity in developing countries. Economics of Education Review. 25, (2), 147-156.

2005

(author unknown) . Aumenta nzmero de mujeres indocumentadas. El Sol de Texas. (38, 3319), 2 -

2005

(author unknown) . Mas mujeres emigran hacia EE.UU.: Estudio. La Voz de Houston. (26), 2 -

2005

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina, Bansak, Cynthia, Pozo, Susan . On the Remitting Patterns of Immigrants: Evidence from Mexican Survey Data. Economic Review - Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. 90, (1), 37-58.

2005

Bauer, Thomas, Epstein, Gil S., Gan, Ira N. Enclaves, language, and the location choice of migrants. Journal of Population Economics. 18, (4), 649-662.

2005

Flores, Nadia Yamel . The interrelation between social context, social structure, and social capital in international migration flows from Mexico to the United States. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania.

2005

Frank, Reanne, Wildsmith, Elizabeth . The Grass Widows of Mexico: Migration and Union Dissolution in a Binational Context. Social Forces. 83, (3), 919-948.

2005

Mariano, Sana, Massey, Douglas S. Household Composition, Family Migration, and Community Context: Migrant Remittances in Four Countries. Social Science Quarterly. 86, (2), 509-528.

2005

Martinez, Tony P., Martinez, Alison P. Mexican Migration Project Sheds Light on Workers in the Shadows. Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education. 15, (10), 23 -

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