Women earned about 20.8% less than men in Mexico in 1987, a difference that increased to 22.0% by 1993. Using 1987–93 data from Mexico's National Urban Employment Survey, the authors study the role of occupational attainment in this wage differential. Most of the 1987–93 increase...

Summary About 2.5 million Mexicans migrated to the United States during 1997-2002, and 1.6 million of them sent remittances to their families. Did recipients change their labor force status in response to these remittances? This question has been examined before. Unlike the previous studies, we...