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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Description:	ix, 338 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Subject:	Mexican Americans -- Social conditions -- Congresses. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation -- Congresses. Mexican Americans -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. Mexican Americans -- Employment -- Congresses. Alien labor, Mexican -- United States -- Congresses. Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses. Immigrants -- United States -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. Emigration and immigration. Foreign workers, Mexican. Immigrants -- Economic conditions. Immigrants -- Social conditions. Mexican Americans -- Cultural assimilation. Mexican Americans -- Economic conditions. Mexican Americans -- Employment. Mexican Americans -- Social conditions. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Congresses. Mexico. United States. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Print Book
Local Note:	University of Chicago Library's copy 2 has original dust jacket.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6377278

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Other authors / contributors:	Borjas, George J. National Bureau of Economic Research.
ISBN:	9780226066325 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226066320 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	"Consists of papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in February 2005"--P. ix. "Contains the studies presented at the fourth NBER conference"--P. 2. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Evolution of the Mexican-Born Workforce in the United States
2. Gender and Assimilation among Mexican Americans
3. Mexican Assimilation in the United States
4. Mexican Entrepreneurship: A Comparison of Self-Employment in Mexico and the United States
5. Mexican Immigration and Self-Selection: New Evidence from the 2000 Mexican Census
6. The Diffusion of Mexican Immigrants during the 1990s: Explanations and Impacts
7. Ethnic Identification, Intermarriage, and Unmeasured Progress by Mexican Americans
8. Impacts of Policy Reforms on Labor Migration from Rural Mexico to the United States
9. Emigration, Labor Supply, and Earnings in Mexico
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index

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