Marie T. Mora (born November 7, 1969)[1] is an American economist who currently acts as Provost Ad Interim at Metropolitan State University of Denver.
[8] Mora has also participated or moderated several conference discussions with Federal Reserve officials, including the Inaugural National Urban League Delegation Meeting with Fed Chair Janet Yellen in 2016.
[10] In this book Mora with Alberto Davila and Havidan Rodriguez analyze large datasets such as the Puerto Rican community survey and the American community survey to create the first comprehensive analysis of socioeconomic and demographic effects of "La Crisis Boricua" in which include shrinking and rapidly aging populations, declines of high-tech industries, massive net out migration from the Islands, losses in both public and private sector careers, growing public debt, pension obligations and defaults on bondholder dividends.
This crisis began with the 1817 Jones-Shafroth Act which granted Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship that caused the influx of Islanders coming to the mainland.
Mora and Davilla utilize U.S Census data from 1990 and 2000 to estimate earning functions and changes to U.S born Hispanic and non-Hispanic cross-border workers.
[13] In this Journal article Mora analyzes the U.S. census data from 2000 to explore the earnings of Mexican immigrants in US-Mexico border cities and if they differentiate based on work location.
Mora's results show that Mexican entrepreneurs that live in U.S.-Mexico border cities who primarily work in Mexico earn a premium over their counterparts that are employed in the U.S.
This leads Mora to conclude that policies that aim to reduce labor flows and economic trade across the U.S.-Mexico border may cause entrepreneurial activities of foreign-born U.S. residents to decrease in intensity.
Mora argues that this under-education of Hispanics causes numerous economic, social and labor market repercussions such as low-wages, high unemployment and increased poverty rates.