Immigration Article of the Day: Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK by Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh

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June 14, 2012

Immigration Article of the Day: Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK by Gordon Hanson and Craig McIntosh

Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK by Gordon H. Hanson?(UCSD) and?Craig McIntosh University of California, San Diego (UCSD).??June 2012 The Economic Journal, Vol. 122, Issue 561, pp. 707-726, 2012

Abstract: We use census data for the US, Canada, Spain and UK to estimate bilateral migration rates to these countries from 25 Latin American and Caribbean nations over the period 1980 to 2005. Latin American migration to the US is responsive to labour supply and demand shocks as well as natural disasters. Latin American migration to Canada, Spain and the UK, in contrast, is largely insensitive to these shocks, responding only to civil and military conflict. The results are consistent with US immigration being mediated by market forces and immigration to the other countries being insulated from labour market shocks.

KJ

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