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US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective

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  • Gordon H. Hanson
  • Pia Orrenius
  • Madeline Zavodny

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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.

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  • Gordon H. Hanson & Pia Orrenius & Madeline Zavodny, 2022. "US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective," NBER Working Papers 30666, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30666
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    1. Braulio Britos & Manuel Hernandez & Danilo Trupkin, 2025. "From farms to borders: Agricultural distortions and international migration," Working Papers 174, Universidad de San Andres, Departamento de Economia, revised Dec 2025.
    2. Joanna Lahey & Roberto Mosquera, 2024. "Age and hiring for high school graduate Hispanics in the United States," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 37(1), pages 1-40, March.
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    4. David Autor & David Dorn & Gordon Hanson, 2025. "Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native- and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 78(1), pages 10-36, January.
    5. Bonilla-Mejía, Leonardo & Bracco, Jessica & Ham Gonzalez, Andres & Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo, 2025. "Is Drug-Related Violence Fueling Emigration from Central America?," IZA Discussion Papers 18028, IZA Network @ LISER.

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    • F20 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - General
    • J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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