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Shifts in the Employment Conditions of Mexican Migrant Men and Women

The Effect of U.S. Immigration Policy

Katharine M. Donato

Vanderbilt University, katharine.donato{at}vanderbilt.edu

Chizuko Wakabayashi

Vanderbilt University

Shirin Hakimzadeh

Georgetown Law School

Amada Armenta

University of California-Los Angeles

Prior studies suggest that the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) in 1986 signaled deterioration in the labor market conditions faced by Mexican migrant men. In this article, the authors examine whether and how labor market conditions changed for migrant women after 1986, and the extent to which these shifts were comparable to those experienced by men. Using data about household heads and their spouses from the Mexican Migration Project, they examine sex differences in five employment conditions: hourly wages, hours worked, and the likelihoods of receiving wages in cash and paying federal and Social Security taxes. The authors find significant gender differences in the post-1986 period, especially after 1993 when most avenues to legal visas disappeared. These findings document negative policy impacts on the employment conditions of Mexican migrant men and women, and they suggest particularly precarious employment conditions for women since 1994.

Key Words: employment • Mexico • immigration • policy • gender

Work and Occupations, Vol. 35, No. 4, 462-495 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0730888408322859
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