Data and Code for: US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective

The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth. Our review of the evidence on the US immigration wave from the region suggests that it bears many similarities to the major immigration waves of the 19th and early 20th centuries, that the demographic and economic forces behind Latin American migrant inflows appear to have weakened across most sending countries, and that a continued slowdown of immigration from Latin America post-pandemic has the potential to disrupt labor-intensive sectors in many US regional labor markets. <br><br><br><br><br>

历经半个世纪的快速增长后，出生于拉美及加勒比地区的美国居民占比近期进入平稳阶段。我们对美国来自该区域的移民潮相关证据进行综述后发现，其与19世纪及20世纪初的历次大规模移民潮存在诸多共性；拉美移民流入背后的人口与经济驱动因素，在多数移民来源国均已有所减弱；而疫情后拉美移民流入持续放缓，有可能对美国多个区域劳动力市场内的劳动密集型行业造成冲击。