Internal Migration and High Skilled Female Labour Supply: A Case Study of Mexico
(2018) NEKP01 20181Department of Economics
- Abstract (Swedish)
- A recent body of empirical studies has given us a reason to expect that an influx of low-skilled workers can increase high skilled female market labour supply. Most of these studies, however, have focused on developed countries and on investigating the impact as it pertains to immigration. Believing that this same effect might hold in the case of internal migration, in this study, I employ a shift-share instrument approach that relies on the on historical patterns of migration based on migrant origin to identify the causal effect of low-skilled female internal migration on high-skilled female market labour supply in Mexico. I find that a unit increase in the share of low skilled females in the labour force increases market labour supply of... (More)
- A recent body of empirical studies has given us a reason to expect that an influx of low-skilled workers can increase high skilled female market labour supply. Most of these studies, however, have focused on developed countries and on investigating the impact as it pertains to immigration. Believing that this same effect might hold in the case of internal migration, in this study, I employ a shift-share instrument approach that relies on the on historical patterns of migration based on migrant origin to identify the causal effect of low-skilled female internal migration on high-skilled female market labour supply in Mexico. I find that a unit increase in the share of low skilled females in the labour force increases market labour supply of females with at least a college degree by approximately 3 hours a week. At the intensive margin, I also find that a positive supply shock to share of low-skilled female workers positively affects the probability of working more than 60 hours for females that fall in the highest quantiles of the wage distribution. (Less)
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- author
- Thami, Prakriti LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKP01 20181
- year
- 2018
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Internal migration, female labour supply, shift-share instrument
- language
- English
- id
- 8958851
- date added to LUP
- 2018-09-26 09:15:59
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abstract = {{A recent body of empirical studies has given us a reason to expect that an influx of low-skilled workers can increase high skilled female market labour supply. Most of these studies, however, have focused on developed countries and on investigating the impact as it pertains to immigration. Believing that this same effect might hold in the case of internal migration, in this study, I employ a shift-share instrument approach that relies on the on historical patterns of migration based on migrant origin to identify the causal effect of low-skilled female internal migration on high-skilled female market labour supply in Mexico. I find that a unit increase in the share of low skilled females in the labour force increases market labour supply of females with at least a college degree by approximately 3 hours a week. At the intensive margin, I also find that a positive supply shock to share of low-skilled female workers positively affects the probability of working more than 60 hours for females that fall in the highest quantiles of the wage distribution.}},
author = {{Thami, Prakriti}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Internal Migration and High Skilled Female Labour Supply: A Case Study of Mexico}},
year = {{2018}},
}