Legal Status and Wage Disparities for Mexican Immigrants
Legal Status and Wage Disparities for Mexican Immigrants
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DOI：
10.1353/sof.2010.0082
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Farkas, George
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作者：
Hall, Matthew;Greenman, Emily;Farkas, George
本文采用了一种独特的方法推断的法律的地位的墨西哥移民的收入和计划参与的调查提供新的证据的作用，法律的授权在美国工人的工资。我们估计了四个群体的工资轨迹：有证件的墨西哥移民，无证件的墨西哥移民，在美国出生的墨西哥裔美国人和本地非拉丁裔白人。我们的估计显示，有证件和无证件的墨西哥移民男性之间的工资差距为17%，墨西哥移民女性的工资差距为9%。当工人的人力资本和职业保持不变时，这些工资差距分别减少到8%和4%。我们还发现，无证墨西哥移民的人力资本回报率存在很大差异，他们的人力资本回报率最低，而且随着时间的推移，工资增长非常缓慢。
This article employs a unique method of inferring the legal status of Mexican immigrants in the Survey of Income and Program Participation to offer new evidence of the role of legal authorization in the United States on workers' wages. We estimate wage trajectories for four groups: documented Mexican immigrants, undocumented Mexican immigrants, U.S-born Mexican Americans and native non-Latino whites. Our estimates reveal a gross 17 percent wage disparity between documented and undocumented Mexican immigrant men, and a 9 percent documented-undocumented wage disparity for Mexican immigrant women. When worker human capital and occupation are held constant, these wage gaps reduce to 8 and 4 percent, respectively. We also find large differences in returns to human capital with undocumented Mexican immigrants having the lowest wage returns to human capital and having very slow wage growth over time.