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Migration Experience and Earnings in the Mexican Labor Market

Steffen Reinhold and Kevin Thom
Journal of Human Resources, July 2013, 48 (3) 768-820; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.48.3.768
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    • I. Introduction
    • II. Literature on Return Migration and Skill Upgrading
    • III. A Simple Model of Temporary Migration
    • IV. Implications for Relationships in the Data
    • V. Data and Descriptive Statistics
    • VI. Empirical Results
    • Appendix A1 Deriving Theoretical Results
    • Appendix A2 Interpreting the OLS Estimates
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