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A COMPARISON OF MEXICAN MIGRANT REMITTANCES ACROSS U.S. REGIONS
Author(s) -
FAIRCHILD STEPHEN T.,
SIMPSON NICOLE B.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
contemporary economic policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.454
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1465-7287
pISSN - 1074-3529
DOI - 10.1111/j.1465-7287.2007.00084.x
Subject(s) - destinations , demographic economics , geography , mexican americans , immigration , demography , economics , ethnic group , political science , sociology , tourism , archaeology , law
Since 1990, the United States has experienced a geographic dispersion of Mexican migrants from traditional gateways to new regions. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project, we find significant differences in both the likelihood of remitting and the amount remitted by Mexican migrants across U.S. regions. Specifically, Mexican migrants living in U.S. regions that have experienced considerable increases in migrant populations since 1990 (the Northeast, Southeast, Mountain, and Midwest regions) remit at higher rates and in larger quantities than migrants living in more traditional migrant destinations (the Pacific and South Central regions), even after controlling for observed differences in migrant populations. ( JEL F22, F32, J11, R23)