Posted on: September 23rd, 2007
Filed Under: [ Business ] [ Hispanic News ] [ Texas ]
Tags: border, Mexico, Professor
“The number of Hispanic business owners is particularly high and growing in the Rio Grande Valley and along the Texas-Mexico border, where immigration and migration from other parts of the country has rapidly increased over the last decade. In fact, the impact is still not fully understood.
“Some of it has to do with the comparative advantage,” said Marie Mora, an economics professor at the University of Texas – Pan American. “Given that a lot of Hispanics speak Spanish, to be able to cater to one another.” “
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