La migración internacional como fuente del crecimiento económico argentino

Abstract

Using the sources of economic growth methodlogy, this study tries to quantify the importance that immígration had in argentine econmic growth during the period 1860-1970. Immigration eftect is measured through its contribution to population growth, to changes produced in the labor force participation rate and to changes in the composition of the labor force (age, sex and education mainly). The analysis of the subperíod 1860-1910 is of special interest since Argentina experienced a string economic growth in it (measured by several indicators), where immigration played a very important role. This subperíod allows to analyze the rile of several policies of ecnomic growth prosed at present (using the relationship of substitution that factor mobility with product mobility has). Several demogaphc studies made in Argentina provide the basic material to measure immigration role.