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Speaker: Daniel Osuna, Research Economist at the Central Bank of México
Title: The Effect of Immigration Enforcement Abroad on Immigrants' Home-Country Firms
Abstract: We investigate the effect of an increase in low-skill return migration on firms in
immigrants’ communities of origin. To do so, we exploit the variation in deportations caused by
the Secure Communities program and utilize novel transnational data on the undocumented
Mexican immigrant network. We find that Mexican regions experiencing larger inflows of
deportees have positive changes in several firms’ outcomes. We provide suggestive evidence of
these changes being driven by an increase in the size of the local labor market, the transference of
human and financial capital through deportees, and changes in the composition of the labor force.
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This seminar is part of the UCMX seminar series, connecting scholars researching economic aspects of migration in California and Mexico.