@article{Richter:190909,
      recid = {190909},
      author = {Richter, Susan M. and Taylor, J. Edward},
      title = {Policy Reforms and the Gender Dynamics of Rural  Mexico-to-U.S. Migration},
      address = {2005-10},
      number = {1570-2016-133514},
      series = {Working Paper},
      pages = {40},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {The supply of immigrant workers from Mexico is critical to  both agricultural and
non-agricultural sectors in the  United States. Approximately one half of all  Mexican
immigrants are females who typically are employed  in positions that have minimal legal
status requirements,  e.g., domestic services and clerical and agricultural jobs.  In the past
two decades, the United States implemented  policy reforms motivated in large part by the
desire to  curtail Mexico-to-U.S. migration. Despite the large female  share and differences
in the sector of employment of female  and male Mexican immigrants, there has been no
effort, to  our knowledge, to formally test for gender and employment  sector differences
in the impact of policy shocks on  migrant flows. This paper utilizes data from the  2003
Mexico National Rural Household Survey to  econometrically test the effects of U.S.
immigration and  trade reforms on the gender and employment  sector-destination of rural
Mexico-to-U.S. migrants.  Findings indicate that U.S. immigration and trade policies  are
both gender and employment-sector specific. Female  migration is more sensitive than
male migration to  immigration reforms and other policy shocks. We also find  evidence
that past migration by females has little effect  on male migration, and vice versa.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/190909},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.190909},
}