Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/52907 
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Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2003/35
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper explains the evolution and effects of Mexico-US migration, and highlights the NAFTA approach to economic integration, viz., free up trade and investment while stepping up efforts to prevent unauthorized migration. The European Union approach is different: provide aid first, and later free up trade and migration in the expectation that moves toward convergence will ensure minimal migration because trade has become a substitute for migration. The paper concludes that NAFTA will reduce unwanted Mexico-US migration in the medium to long term, and that different initial conditions in Europe mean that there will be relatively little east-west migration when nationals of new entrant EU members achieve freedom of movement.
Subjects: 
Mexico-US migration
international migration
JEL: 
F22
R23
ISBN: 
9291904538
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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