Shifts in the Employment Conditions of Mexican Migrant Men and Women

Autor:	Chizuko Wakabayashi, Shirin Hakimzadeh, Amada Armenta, Katharine M. Donato
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	Social security Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management Labour economics Sociology and Political Science Immigration policy Immigration reform Cash media_common.quotation_subject Precarious Employment Economics media_common Market conditions
Zdroj:	Work and Occupations. 35:462-495
ISSN:	1552-8464 0730-8884
DOI:	10.1177/0730888408322859
Popis:	Prior studies suggest that the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986 signaled deterioration in the labor market conditions faced by Mexican migrant men. In this article, the authors examine whether and how labor market conditions changed for migrant women after 1986, and the extent to which these shifts were comparable to those experienced by men. Using data about household heads and their spouses from the Mexican Migration Project, they examine sex differences in five employment conditions: hourly wages, hours worked, and the likelihoods of receiving wages in cash and paying federal and Social Security taxes. The authors find significant gender differences in the post-1986 period, especially after 1993 when most avenues to legal visas disappeared. These findings document negative policy impacts on the employment conditions of Mexican migrant men and women, and they suggest particularly precarious employment conditions for women since 1994.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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