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Émigration mexicaine Réseaux de migrants Prix Indice des prix à la consommation Pouvoir d'achat Biens marchands Biens non-marchandsSujets proches
Rose Rosa Commercial products--Prices Commodity prices Price theory Justum pretium Price indices Migrant farm workers Agricultural migrants Migrants Migrant agricultural workers Products, Manufactured Manufactured goods Products Manufactured products Foreign-born population Foreign population Emigrants Foreigners Migrants Funds Funding Decision (Psychology) Decision processes Making decisions Decision analysis Management--Decision making Deciding Management decisions Knowledge, Classification of Finance, commerce, confiscations, etc Methods of analysis Analysis and chemistry Analytical methods Chemical analysis Analysis methods Analysis and examinationCiter ce document
Georgette A. Fernandez Laris, « The price of emigration: estimating the effects of the Mexican diaspora on local prices », Dépôt Universitaire de Mémoires Après Soutenance, ID : 10670/1.bl5zr4
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Using a geographical approach, I exploit the regional (city) variation in the proportion of Mexican households deciding to send a migrant to the U.S across two quinquennial periods to estimate the causal effect of emigration on the local price indices of eight distinct groups of goods and services. To overcome the endogeneity of the emigration decision, I employ an instrumental variables approach that relies on the deep historical roots and high persistence characteristic of Mexican migration. My results show that emigration had a significant negative effect across all price index product classifications. Moreover, they suggested that emigration is more likely to affect non-traded good items and services than tradable products since the magnitude of the negative effect rose when restricting the analysis to the non-tradable good components within each price index classification.