Hispanic Immigration to the United States
This chapter presents some of the exceptional characteristics of recent Hispanic immigration to the United States. In 2005, there were nearly 40 million Hispanic immigrants and descendants of Hispanic immigrants living in the U.S. The assimilation experie
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Örn B. Bodvarsson Hendrik Van den Berg
The Economics of Immigration Theory and Policy
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The Economics of Immigration
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Hendrik Van den Berg
The Economics of Immigration
Theory and Policy
¨ rn B. Bodvarsson Professor Dr. O Department of Economics St. Cloud State University 720 Fourth Avenue South St. Cloud MN 56301 USA [email protected]
Professor Dr. Hendrik Van den Berg Department of Economics University of Nebraska P.O.Box 880489 Lincoln NE 68588-0489 USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-540-77795-3 e-ISBN978-3-540-77796-0 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77796-0 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009926179 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publica-tion or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Viola-tions are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: WMXDesign GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The inspiration for this book came from a collaborative research project on immigration, begun in 2001, when we were colleagues at University of NebraskaLincoln (Bodvarsson was a Visiting Professor there in 2001–05). Our project dealt with the application of Say’s Law to the supply of immigrant labor, meaning that when the supply of immigrant labor grows in an area, the new immigrants, being consumers, bolster labor demand and help to offset the lower wages they may bring about. Our test case was the seemingly obscure Dawson County, Nebraska, where the meatpacking industry experienced a relatively huge increase in Hispanic-born labor supply around 1990. We found for Dawson County this ‘‘demand effect’’ to be significant and our results for this test case generalizable to other, more prominent, test cases. This inspired us to study the famous Mariel Boatlift, where Miami’s labor force grew suddenly by 7% due to the arrival of nearly 125,000 Cuban refugees in the spring of 1980. In that study, we showed that the Marielitos exerted a significant demand effect, which we argue helps to account for the stylized fact that the Mariel influx had a relatively benign effect on the Miami labor market. We had the privilege of presenting both studies at various conferences in the USA, Norway, Tai
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