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LEVINE, Elaine. Globalización migración y algunos trabajos que no tienen fin. Migr. desarro [online]. 2011, vol.9, n.16, pp.119-146. ISSN 1870-7599.

This article analyzes the increasing complementarity between the Mexican and us labor markets and the de facto integration taking place. Changes in the employment structure in the US and the increasing polarization and segmentation of the labor market there help explain how millions of Mexican immigrants find jobs north of the border while millions of men in the US have seen their working lives cut short, because of industrial restructuring and relocation. Mexican immigrants find jobs mainly in the growing service sector, some branches of light manufacturing, and the waning (from an employment perspective) agricultural sector -even though they may be undesirable and low paying jobs by US standards- that provide them with incomes ten or even fifteen times higher than what they could earn in Mexico if they were employed. Furthermore, the crisis that began at the end of 2007 has not caused a massive return to Mexico it has merely diminished the incoming flow of new immigrants.

Palavras-chave : Mexican immigration; labor market segmentation; immigrant labor niches; socio-economic stratification; economic restructuring.

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