Tomatoes or Tomato Pickers? Free Trade and Migration Between Mexico and the United States

Autor:	Amaranta Melchor del Río, Susanne Thorwarth
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Economic integration Distributed lag Bilateral trade JEL classification codes Liberalization business.industry Human migration Economics International trade Treaty business General Economics Econometrics and Finance Free trade
Zdroj:	Journal of Applied Economics. 12:109-135
ISSN:	1667-6726 1514-0326
DOI:	10.1016/s1514-0326(09)60008-8
Popis:	This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed to stem the illegal Mexican migration flow by contributing to economic growth and job creation in both countries. Twelve years after the treaty has come into effect, questions emerge about the extent to which NAFTA was able to reduce the migration pressure: are trade and migration substitutes like the policy-makers had assumed or are they complements? Using monthly data from 1968 until 2004, we estimate a distributed lag model with the number of apprehensions at the US- Mexican border as a proxy for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the United States. JEL classification codes: C22; F00; F10; F22.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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