Southern (American) Hospitality: Italians in Argentina and the US during the Age of Mass Migration

Abstract

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Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

“…In advancing our understanding of assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration, this paper complements research byHatton and Williamson (1998),Ferrie (1999),Abramitzky, Boustan, and Eriksson (2014),Abramitzky et al (2021b),Collins and Zimran (2019),Pérez (2021), and Ward (2020) among others Abramitzky and Boustan (2017). andHatton and Ward (2019) survey this literature.…”

“…In advancing our understanding of assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration, this paper complements research byHatton and Williamson (1998),Ferrie (1999),Abramitzky, Boustan, and Eriksson (2014),Abramitzky et al (2019b),Zimran (2019), andPérez (2019), among others Abramitzky and Boustan (2017). andHatton and Ward (2019) survey this literature.9 We focus on European migration because it accounts for nearly 90 percent of the total inflows to the US prior to 1914 (Abramitzky and Boustan 2017, Figure2, p. 1316), because it was the subject of the main policy debates in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and because it was effectively unconstrained prior to World War I (as opposed to Asian immigration, which was effectively banned by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the "Gentlemen's Agreement" of 1907).…”

International Migration Responses to Modern Europe’s Most Destructive Earthquake: Messina and Reggio Calabria, 1908

“…2, p. 234). The flow of migration also consisted primarily of individuals employed in unskilled occupations (Federico et al 2021;Pérez 2021;Spitzer and Zimran 2018). According to official Italian emigration statistics, in 1905Italian emigration statistics, in -1908.9 percent of Calabrian migrants and 38.1 percent of Sicilian migrants were employed in agriculture.…”

Paesaniversuspaisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration†

“…Using new data,Pérez (2019) confirmed empirically that first-and second-generation Italians had better economic outcomes in Argentina than in the U.S. See alsoKlein, (1983) andCampante and Glaeser (2018).6 Moya (1998). See alsoFernández and Moya, (1999) andClementi (1991) …”