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US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective

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ID4029613
AuthorsGordon Hanson (0000-0001-5798-140X, Gordon Hanson is Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hanson is a Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.), Pia M Orrenius (0000-0002-9384-8910, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), Pia Orrenius (Pia Orrenius is Vice President and Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas. Research Associates, IZA Institute of Labor, Bonn, Germany.), Madeline Zavodny (0000-0001-5966-1688, Madeline Zavodny is Professor of Economics, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. Research Associates, IZA Institute of Labor, Bonn, Germany.)
Year2023
Volume37
Issue1
Pages199-222
Publication date2023-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965
PublisherAmerican Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1257/jep.37.1.199
OpenAlexW4319296117
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited11

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 nineteenth and early twentieth 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

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Immigration · Latin Americans · Pandemic · Political science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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Unique citing works9
Citations per year4,5
Citation span2024 - 2027 (4)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 8
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