From Europe to the Americas: a comparative panel-data analysis of migration to Argentina, Brazil, and the United States, 1870-1910

We use annual panel data, 1870-1910, to estimate and compare the determinants of European emigration to Argentina, Brazil, and the USA. The Hausman-Taylor instrumental variable technique we use provides for cross-sectional (country) controls, accounts for variables that are potentially correlated wi...

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Published in:Journal of population economics 2010-09, Vol.23 (4), p.1301-1318
Main Authors: Balderas, J. Ulyses, Greenwood, Michael J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Data analysis
Demography
Economic models
Economics
Economics and Finance
Emigration
Human migration
Immigrants
Immigration
International migration
Irish immigration
Labor Economics
MIGRATION
Noncitizens
Original Paper
Passengers
Population Economics
Population growth
Population migration
Real wages
Social Policy
Variable coefficients
Variables
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Summary:We use annual panel data, 1870-1910, to estimate and compare the determinants of European emigration to Argentina, Brazil, and the USA. The Hausman-Taylor instrumental variable technique we use provides for cross-sectional (country) controls, accounts for variables that are potentially correlated with the unobservables and allows the recovery of the coefficients of temporally invariant variables. In general, migration was from low-wage source countries, from countries with large stocks of immigrants in the destination who were born in the origin, and from countries with relatively much recent migration to the destination. Certain determinants differ considerably for the three countries.
ISSN:0933-1433
1432-1475
DOI:10.1007/s00148-009-0243-x