Imports and a Migrant Workforce

Paper Summary:

The paper examines Dunlevy and Hutchinson's paper "The Impact of Immigration on American Import Trade in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries" that explores whether the massive inflow of immigrants into the United States during the period between 1870 - 1910 resulted in the pro-trade effect. The paper explains the authors' three main reasons as to why imports and immigration is directly linked but notes their lack of key variables such as the illiteracy rate and the lack of an argumentative conclusion to their findings.

From the Paper:

"Investigations into the contemporary period between the United States and Canada, denote a positive correlation between the size of a migrant population and the degree of import trade between both the host and home countries of those immigrants. Dunlevy and Hutchinson's paper entitled, 'The Impact of Immigration on American Import Trade in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries' further draws on the theory by exploring whether the massive inflow of immigrants into the United States during the period 1870 - 1910 resulted in the same pro-trade effect."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dunlevy, James and Hutchinson, William. The Impact of Immigration on American Import Trade In The late 19th Century and Early 20th Centuries. Pg 1045.
• Erickson, C.J. American Industry And The European Immigrant. Pg 47.
• Dunlevy, James and Gemery, Henry. Economic Opportunity and The Responses of Old and New Migrants to The United States. Pg 903.
• Hourwich, Isaac. Immigration and Labor. Pg 71 & 80.
• Hourwich, Isaac. Immigration and Labor. Pg 70.

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