Michael Bernabé Aguilera
Biographic Data
| ID | 3939064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Bernabé Aguilera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael Bernabé |
| FAMILY NAME | Aguilera |
| SIGNATURE | AGUILERA M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2224-392X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 162 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Impact of Migration on Smoking among Colombian Migrants
Background: Colombian migration globally has had many consequences. This study focuses solely on the smoking behavior of Colombian migrants. This study addresses how the act of international migration impacts the likelihood of smoking among Colombian migrants. Smoking has been found to be the leading cause of preventable death, and so it is a health risk for Colombian migrants. This study pertains to the communities sampled in Colombia, where the…
Colombian International Migration: The Impact of Information Networks on Migration
Data from the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP) collected in Colombia between 2008 and 2015 were used to establish the scarcely studied relationship between social networks and the destinations where Colombians migrate. A logistic regression was employed to predict these migratory destinations. The contribution of this research is that it tests whether social networks tied to a destination are associated with the likelihood to migrate there…
Global Horse Trade in the United States: 1981-2013
Similar to other commodities, US sport horses have increasingly been outsourced. The sport horse commodity chain is a long process involving many actors. The data presented document a shift away from US-born horses to those born in Europe. Since the 1980s, the American sport horse market has become a global market. Over $300 million dollars in horses are imported into the United States, and over a third comes from Germany. These foreign horses ha…
Who Benefits? The Interactional Determinants of Microfinance’s Varied Effects
Since its emergence as a development tool, scholars and practitioners have questioned microfinance’s short- and long-term impacts but have had insufficient empirical evidence to assess them. To address this gap, this paper draws on mixed method research to assess the effects of microfinance loan and educational services over time. It explores why, even within the same microfinance institution (MFI), some borrowers benefit from microfinance servic…
The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas
Ethnic enclaves and the earnings of self-employed Latinos
Personal networks and the incomes of men and women in the United States: Do personal networks provide higher returns for men or women
The Impact of Antiimmigrant Sentiment and Irca on Migration Patterns
Immigration Policy and Employment Conditions of US Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic1
Prior studies suggest that the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986 signalled a deterioration in the labour market conditions of Mexican migrants. In this paper, we examine whether and how labour market conditions worsened for Dominicans and Nicaraguans after 1986, and the extent to which these shifts were comparable to those experienced by Mexicans. Our analysis relies on a new source of data that offers comparable da…
The Impact of Social Capital on The Earnings of Puerto Rican Migrants
There is a paucity of studies examining the relationship between Puerto Ricans' social capital and their earnings. I utilized data from the Latin American Migration Project (collected in 1998 and 1999) to test five hypotheses derived from social capital theory to predict the hourly earnings of Puerto Rican migrants. My study illustrates that Puerto Rican migrants' social capital is positively related with their earnings. Interestingly, the social…
Deciding Where to Retire: Intended Retirement Location Choices of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Migrants
Objective. I use transnational theory to address how transnational relationships, behavior, and context influence retirement location choices of recently legalized immigrants. I also account for the relationship between assimilation and retirement location choices. Methods. To test these theories, I use the 1992 Legalized Population Survey to examine formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants' attachment to the United States through their intended …
The Effect of Legalization on the Labor Markets of Latin American Immigrants: A Gendered Comparison
The impact of legalization on the labor market outcomes of those Latin American immigrants granted amnesty by the Immigration, Reform, and Control Act of 1986 is considered, paying special attention to differences between men and women. I utilize the Legalized Population Survey (1988 and 1992) to test several hypotheses taken from the literature about legalization. Contrary to previous research indicating that legalization was beneficial only to …
The Impact of the Worker: How Social Capital and Human Capital Influence the Job Tenure of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Immigrants
Using the 1992 Legalized Population Survey, I focus on employment matching processes of formerly undocumented Mexican immigrant workers in the United States. As in earlier studies, I show that employment characteristics are related to the job tenures of immigrant workers. However, my contribution is that I specifically analyze how formerly undocumented Mexican immigrant workers' attributes and social networks influence their job tenures. In gener…
The Impact of Social Capital on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey
Objectives . Few studies apply the concept of social capital to labor force participation. In this research, I study the relationship between friendship networks and labor force participation as represented by employment and hours worked. Methods . I test five hypotheses representing social capital with network structure, network quality, and network diversity using nationally representative data from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey. Sin…
Working with Co-Ethnics: Earnings Penalties for Latino Immigrants at Latino Jobsites
We demonstrate that Mexicans and Central Americans legalized through the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act suffer a substantial pay penalty for working at jobsites where co-ethnics predominate, above and beyond the influences of low levels of human capital, employment in informal or secondary sector jobs, or in less-skilled occupations. Utilizing the 1992 Legalized Population Survey, we regress wages on individual, job, and occupational cha…
The Impact of Social Capital on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey
Objectives . Few studies apply the concept of social capital to labor force participation. In this research, I study the relationship between friendship networks and labor force participation as represented by employment and hours worked. Methods . I test five hypotheses representing social capital with network structure, network quality, and network diversity using nationally representative data from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey. Sin…
Working with Co-Ethnics: Earnings Penalties for Latino Immigrants at Latino Jobsites
We demonstrate that Mexicans and Central Americans legalized through the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act suffer a substantial pay penalty for working at jobsites where co-ethnics predominate, above and beyond the influences of low levels of human capital, employment in informal or secondary sector jobs, or in less-skilled occupations. Utilizing the 1992 Legalized Population Survey, we regress wages on individual, job, and occupational cha…
The Impact of Social Capital on The Earnings of Puerto Rican Migrants
There is a paucity of studies examining the relationship between Puerto Ricans' social capital and their earnings. I utilized data from the Latin American Migration Project (collected in 1998 and 1999) to test five hypotheses derived from social capital theory to predict the hourly earnings of Puerto Rican migrants. My study illustrates that Puerto Rican migrants' social capital is positively related with their earnings. Interestingly, the social…
The Impact of the Worker: How Social Capital and Human Capital Influence the Job Tenure of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Immigrants
Using the 1992 Legalized Population Survey, I focus on employment matching processes of formerly undocumented Mexican immigrant workers in the United States. As in earlier studies, I show that employment characteristics are related to the job tenures of immigrant workers. However, my contribution is that I specifically analyze how formerly undocumented Mexican immigrant workers' attributes and social networks influence their job tenures. In gener…
Immigration Policy and Employment Conditions of US Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic1
Prior studies suggest that the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986 signalled a deterioration in the labour market conditions of Mexican migrants. In this paper, we examine whether and how labour market conditions worsened for Dominicans and Nicaraguans after 1986, and the extent to which these shifts were comparable to those experienced by Mexicans. Our analysis relies on a new source of data that offers comparable da…
Personal networks and the incomes of men and women in the United States: Do personal networks provide higher returns for men or women
Deciding Where to Retire: Intended Retirement Location Choices of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Migrants
Objective. I use transnational theory to address how transnational relationships, behavior, and context influence retirement location choices of recently legalized immigrants. I also account for the relationship between assimilation and retirement location choices. Methods. To test these theories, I use the 1992 Legalized Population Survey to examine formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants' attachment to the United States through their intended …
The Effect of Legalization on the Labor Markets of Latin American Immigrants: A Gendered Comparison
The impact of legalization on the labor market outcomes of those Latin American immigrants granted amnesty by the Immigration, Reform, and Control Act of 1986 is considered, paying special attention to differences between men and women. I utilize the Legalized Population Survey (1988 and 1992) to test several hypotheses taken from the literature about legalization. Contrary to previous research indicating that legalization was beneficial only to …
Colombian International Migration: The Impact of Information Networks on Migration
Data from the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP) collected in Colombia between 2008 and 2015 were used to establish the scarcely studied relationship between social networks and the destinations where Colombians migrate. A logistic regression was employed to predict these migratory destinations. The contribution of this research is that it tests whether social networks tied to a destination are associated with the likelihood to migrate there…
The Impact of Social Capital on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey
Objectives . Few studies apply the concept of social capital to labor force participation. In this research, I study the relationship between friendship networks and labor force participation as represented by employment and hours worked. Methods . I test five hypotheses representing social capital with network structure, network quality, and network diversity using nationally representative data from the 2000 Social Capital Benchmark Survey. Sin…
Working with Co-Ethnics: Earnings Penalties for Latino Immigrants at Latino Jobsites
We demonstrate that Mexicans and Central Americans legalized through the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act suffer a substantial pay penalty for working at jobsites where co-ethnics predominate, above and beyond the influences of low levels of human capital, employment in informal or secondary sector jobs, or in less-skilled occupations. Utilizing the 1992 Legalized Population Survey, we regress wages on individual, job, and occupational cha…
The Impact of the Worker: How Social Capital and Human Capital Influence the Job Tenure of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Immigrants
Using the 1992 Legalized Population Survey, I focus on employment matching processes of formerly undocumented Mexican immigrant workers in the United States. As in earlier studies, I show that employment characteristics are related to the job tenures of immigrant workers. However, my contribution is that I specifically analyze how formerly undocumented Mexican immigrant workers' attributes and social networks influence their job tenures. In gener…
Deciding Where to Retire: Intended Retirement Location Choices of Formerly Undocumented Mexican Migrants
Objective. I use transnational theory to address how transnational relationships, behavior, and context influence retirement location choices of recently legalized immigrants. I also account for the relationship between assimilation and retirement location choices. Methods. To test these theories, I use the 1992 Legalized Population Survey to examine formerly undocumented Mexican immigrants' attachment to the United States through their intended …
The Effect of Legalization on the Labor Markets of Latin American Immigrants: A Gendered Comparison
The impact of legalization on the labor market outcomes of those Latin American immigrants granted amnesty by the Immigration, Reform, and Control Act of 1986 is considered, paying special attention to differences between men and women. I utilize the Legalized Population Survey (1988 and 1992) to test several hypotheses taken from the literature about legalization. Contrary to previous research indicating that legalization was beneficial only to …
Immigration Policy and Employment Conditions of US Immigrants from Mexico, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic1
Prior studies suggest that the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986 signalled a deterioration in the labour market conditions of Mexican migrants. In this paper, we examine whether and how labour market conditions worsened for Dominicans and Nicaraguans after 1986, and the extent to which these shifts were comparable to those experienced by Mexicans. Our analysis relies on a new source of data that offers comparable da…
The Impact of Social Capital on The Earnings of Puerto Rican Migrants
There is a paucity of studies examining the relationship between Puerto Ricans' social capital and their earnings. I utilized data from the Latin American Migration Project (collected in 1998 and 1999) to test five hypotheses derived from social capital theory to predict the hourly earnings of Puerto Rican migrants. My study illustrates that Puerto Rican migrants' social capital is positively related with their earnings. Interestingly, the social…
The Impact of Antiimmigrant Sentiment and Irca on Migration Patterns
Personal networks and the incomes of men and women in the United States: Do personal networks provide higher returns for men or women
Ethnic enclaves and the earnings of self-employed Latinos
The Chicken Trail: Following Workers, Migrants, and Corporations across the Americas
Who Benefits? The Interactional Determinants of Microfinance’s Varied Effects
Since its emergence as a development tool, scholars and practitioners have questioned microfinance’s short- and long-term impacts but have had insufficient empirical evidence to assess them. To address this gap, this paper draws on mixed method research to assess the effects of microfinance loan and educational services over time. It explores why, even within the same microfinance institution (MFI), some borrowers benefit from microfinance servic…
Global Horse Trade in the United States: 1981-2013
Similar to other commodities, US sport horses have increasingly been outsourced. The sport horse commodity chain is a long process involving many actors. The data presented document a shift away from US-born horses to those born in Europe. Since the 1980s, the American sport horse market has become a global market. Over $300 million dollars in horses are imported into the United States, and over a third comes from Germany. These foreign horses ha…
Colombian International Migration: The Impact of Information Networks on Migration
Data from the Latin American Migration Project (LAMP) collected in Colombia between 2008 and 2015 were used to establish the scarcely studied relationship between social networks and the destinations where Colombians migrate. A logistic regression was employed to predict these migratory destinations. The contribution of this research is that it tests whether social networks tied to a destination are associated with the likelihood to migrate there…
The Impact of Migration on Smoking among Colombian Migrants
Background: Colombian migration globally has had many consequences. This study focuses solely on the smoking behavior of Colombian migrants. This study addresses how the act of international migration impacts the likelihood of smoking among Colombian migrants. Smoking has been found to be the leading cause of preventable death, and so it is a health risk for Colombian migrants. This study pertains to the communities sampled in Colombia, where the…
Economics (14 works) · Demographic economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (8 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Human capital (4 works)