Data and Code for: US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Gordon Hanson, Harvard University; Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Madeline Zavodny, University of North Florida

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Project Citation:

Hanson, Gordon, Orrenius, Pia, and Zavodny, Madeline. Data and Code for: US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2023. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-01-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/E183147V1

Project Description

Summary: The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early 20th centuries, that the demographic and economic forces behind Latin American migrant inflows appear to have weakened across most sending countries, and that a continued slowdown of immigration from Latin America post-pandemic has the potential to disrupt labor-intensive sectors in many US regional labor markets.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms: immigration; Latin America

JEL Classification:
J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
J61 Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers

Geographic Coverage: United States, Caribbean, Latin America

Time Period(s): 1960 – 2020

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