Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/207513 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12689
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the labor market consequences of an extensive campaign repatriating around 400,000 Mexicans in 1929-34. To identify a causal effect, we instrument county level repatriations with the existence of a railway line to Mexico interacted with the size of the Mexican communities in 1910. Using individual linked data we find that Mexican repatriations reduced employment of native incumbent workers and resulted in their occupational downgrading. However, using a repeated cross section of county level data, we find attenuated and non-significant employment effects and amplified wage downgrading. We show that this is due to selective in- and out-migration of natives.
Subjects: 
Mexican repatriations
Great Depression
employment
immigration
railway
JEL: 
J15
J21
J61
N32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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