The Net Economic Incentive for Illegal Mexican Migration

A Case Study

Bibliographic Data

ID11385166
AuthorsRichard W Cuthbert (Oregon State University, Corvallis, corresponding author), Joe B Stevens (Oregon State University, Corvallis)
Year1981
Volume15
Issue3
Pages543-550
Publication date1981-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0197-9183 • E-ISSN: 1747-7379
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/019791838101500306
OpenAlexW2317132926
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited3

Most illegal Mexican aliens come to the United States with the idea of making more money than in Mexico; this is conventional wisdom among researchers and policymakers alike. Stoddard (1976), for example, charac? terizes the overwhelming majority of illegal Mexican aliens as economic refugees who are drawn to the U.S. by a job that pays between five and ten times the earnings that a similar job in Mexico would pay. Portes describes illegal Mexican migration as

Demographic economics · Developing country · Development economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Illegal immigrants · Illegal immigration · Immigration · Incentive · Mexican americans · Political science · Refugee · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Taxation and Compliance Studies · Finance

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