US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective / Gordon H. Hanson, Pia Orrenius, Madeline Zavodny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hanson, Gordon H.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Orrenius, Pia.

Zavodny, Madeline.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w30666.

NBER working paper series no. w30666

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.

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.

Notes:

Print version record

November 2022.