Migration, Population Composition and Long Run Economic Development: Evidence from Settlements in the Pampas

Migrants and the Making of America: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration during the Age of Mass Migration

“…In fact, immigration immediately led to economic benefits that took the form of higher incomes, higher productivity, more innovation, and more industrialization. These findings complement recent scholarship examining the selection of immigrants to the United States (e.g., Abramitzky, Boustan and Eriksson, 2012, 2013, Spitzer and Zimran, 2013 and their experiences after arrival (e.g., Abramitzky, Boustan and Eriksson, 2014), as well as the existing literature on the importance of the cultural legacies of immigration (e.g., Fischer, 1989, Ottaviano and Peri, 2006, Ager and Bruckner, 2013, Grosjean, 2014, Bandiera, Mohnen, Rasul and Viarengo, 2016. Our findings of the long-term benefits of immigrants within the United States complement existing studies that also find long-term benefits of historical immigration in Brazil (Rocha, Ferraz and Soares, 2015) and Argentina (Droller, 2013).…”

Migrants and the Making of America: The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Immigration During the Age of Mass Migration

“…In fact, immigration immediately led to economic benefits that took the form of higher incomes, higher productivity, more innovation, and more industrialization. These findings complement recent scholarship examining the selection of immigrants to the United States (e.g., Abramitzky, Boustan and Eriksson, 2012, 2013, Spitzer and Zimran, 2013 and their experiences after arrival (e.g., Abramitzky, Boustan and Eriksson, 2014), as well as the existing literature on the importance of the cultural legacies of immigration (e.g., Fischer, 1989, Ottaviano and Peri, 2006, Ager and Bruckner, 2013, Grosjean, 2014, Bandiera, Mohnen, Rasul and Viarengo, 2016. Our findings of the long-term benefits of immigrants within the United States complement existing studies that also find long-term benefits of historical immigration in Brazil (Rocha, Ferraz and Soares, 2015) and Argentina (Droller, 2013).…”

Trade, Structural Transformation and Development: Evidence from Argentina 1869-1914

“…hides, wool, cereals), as reported in Panel B of Table 1. 32 See the data appendix for further discussion of the data definitions and sources. 33 We use the definition of urban population from the population census, which corresponds to the population of all cities and towns. We find similar results with an alternative definition of urban population based on the population of cities with more than 2,000 inhabitants.…”

“…To recover the level of productivities {e z A (`), z N (`)} from (33) and 34, we impose the following normalizations. We choose 1914 as our base year and obtain the level of productivities in that year by normalizing the common level of utility across all locations u ⇤ to one.…”

“…Data are reported at the level of provinces and districts, where there are 23 provinces and 386 districts in 1895. For each district, we have information on total population, rural population (which we associate with the agricultural sector), urban population (which we associate with the non-traded sector including manufacturing for the local market and services), the number of natives and immigrants, and geographical land area 33. Some district boundaries change during our sample period: Between 1869 and 1895, there is an expansion in the geographical boundaries of Argentina, while between 1895 and 1914 a number of districts are subdivided.…”