Stephen Trejo

Research Fellow

University of Texas at Austin

trejo@austin.utexas.edu

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Stephen Trejo is a labor economist at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1988. Professor Trejo's research focuses on public policy issues, including overtime pay regulation, the labor market experiences of immigrants, and obstacles to the economic progress of minority groups.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in August 2000.

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IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16402

Which Mexicans Are White? Enumerator-Assigned Race in the 1930 Census and the Socioeconomic Integration of Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15802

Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo

publishled in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37 (1), 169–198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12952

Ethnic Attrition, Assimilation, and the Measured Health Outcomes of Mexican Americans

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2020, 33(4): 1499-1522

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12704

New Evidence of Generational Progress for Mexican Americans

Brian Duncan, Jeffrey Grogger, Ana Sofia Leon, Stephen Trejo

published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 62, 101771

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10062

Ethnic Attrition and the Observed Health of Later-Generation Mexican Americans

Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo

published in: American Economic Review, 2016, 106 (5), 467-471

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9495

Immigrant Employment and Earnings Growth in Canada and the U.S.: Evidence from Longitudinal Data

Neeraj Kaushal, Yao Lu, Nicole Denier, Julia Shu-Huah Wang, Stephen Trejo

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (4), 1249-1277.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6399

Interethnic Marriages and their Economic Effects

Delia Furtado, Stephen Trejo

published in: Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds.), International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Edward Elgar 2013, Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, USA, Chapter 15, 276-292

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6276

The Complexity of Immigrant Generations: Implications for Assessing the Socioeconomic Integration of Hispanics and Asians

Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo

published in: ILR Review, 2017, 70 (5), 1146-1175

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5964

Low-Skilled Immigrants and the U.S. Labor Market

Brian Duncan, Stephen Trejo

published as 'The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 549-554

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5010

How Do Immigrants Spend Their Time? The Process of Assimilation

Daniel S. Hamermesh, Stephen Trejo

published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2013, 26 (2), 507-530