Table 6 Estimates of the determinants of the hazard of returning to Mexico for the last migration sample

From: What makes you go back home? Determinants of the duration of migration of Mexican immigrants in the United States

Last migration sample
Variable/covariate	Hazard ratio	S.E.	z-stat	P value
Age	1.0070	0.0027	2.59	0.010
Married MX	1.5841	0.2812	2.59	0.010
Married US	1.2391	0.6707	0.4	0.692
Children	1.1022	0.0321	3.34	0.001
Agricultural	1.5839	0.1516	4.81	0.000
Professional	1.3071	0.1760	1.99	0.047
Manufacturing	1.2199	0.1246	1.95	0.052
Unskilled	0.7352	0.0852	−2.66	0.008
Self-employed	1.1289	0.1166	1.17	0.240
Mother US	0.5902	0.3153	−0.99	0.324
Father US	1.1550	0.0604	2.75	0.006
Property MX	1.4177	0.0846	5.85	0.000
Urban	0.7355	0.0523	−4.32	0.000
Elementary	0.8637	0.0493	−2.57	0.010
Some middle education	0.9994	0.1216	−0.01	0.996
Middle education	0.7489	0.0660	−3.28	0.001
Some high school	0.6868	0.1231	−2.1	0.036
High school	0.8628	0.1159	−1.1	0.272
Some college education	0.9303	0.1534	−0.44	0.661
College education	1.6762	0.2860	3.03	0.002
Some grad education	1.6692	0.4404	1.94	0.052
Paisanos	1.1676	0.0588	3.08	0.002
Exp. wage^a	0.9622	0.0155	−2.39	0.017
Distance^b	0.8619	0.0410	−3.13	0.002
Apprehension rate	0.9853	0.0067	−2.18	0.030
Year migration	0.9908	0.0059	−1.53	0.125
IRCA	0.7414	0.0561	−3.95	0.000
Year 1986	0.9802	0.1081	−0.18	0.856
Year 1990	1.2581	0.1695	1.7	0.088
Saving1^a	1.3298	0.0723	5.24	0.000
Saving2^a	1.2261	0.0739	3.38	0.001
Remittances	1.0049	0.0527	0.09	0.925
Log-likelihood				−13,058
Number of observations				2658
Number of failures				1986

^aSeries deflated by the US consumer index (CPI)
^bNormalized by 1000 miles

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