The Effect of Family Member Migration on Education and Work Among Nonmigrant Youth in Mexico |
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Authors: | Andrew Halpern-Manners |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Sociology and Minnesota Population Center, University of Minnesota, 909 Social Sciences, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA |
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Abstract: | While academic and policy circles have given much attention to the assimilatory experiences of Mexican immigrants in the United
States, less is known about those who stay behind—an especially unfortunate oversight given the increasing number of Mexican
youth with migrant family members. Of the studies on this topic, most have sought to identify the effect that migration has
on youths’ migratory and educational aspirations, often using qualitative methods in individual sending communities. The present
article supplements this research in two ways: (1) in addition to assessing educational outcomes, the scope of the analysis
is expanded to include nonmigrants’ interaction with another homeland institution of upward mobility: the labor market; and
(2) using a large demographic data set, statistical techniques are employed to adjust for unobserved selectivity into the
migrant family-member population, thus accounting for a potentially serious source of bias. The results suggest that youth
in migrant-sending families are less likely to complete the educational transitions leading up to postsecondary school and
have a lower probability of participating in the local economy. The results also indicate that unobserved factors play a “nonignorable”
role in sorting youth into migrant and nonmigrant families. |
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