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Stephen J. Trejo
Stephen J. Trejo
Research Fellow
University of Texas at Austin
trejo@austin.utexas.edu External Homepage CV

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.

IZA Publications

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17579
Immigrant Age at Arrival and the Intergenerational Transmission of Ethnic Identification Among Mexican Americans
Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo
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 J. Trejo
published in: ILR Review, 2025, 78 (1), 62- 85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15802
Hispanic Americans in the Labor Market: Patterns over Time and across Generations
Francisca M. Antman, Brian Duncan, Stephen J. Trejo
published 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 J. 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 J. 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 J. 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 J. 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 J. 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 J. 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 J. Trejo
published as 'The Employment of Low-Skilled Immigrant Men in the United States' in: American Economic Review, 2012, 102 (3), 549-554
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