Birth Rates and Border Crossings: Latin American Migration to the US, Canada, Spain and the UK

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hanson, Gordon H.; McIntosh, Craig
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California San Diego; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02509.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 707-726
• 关键词: income

摘要

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.