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Skill Selectivity In Transatlantic Migration: The Case Of Canary Islanders In Cuba

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The skill composition of European migrants to the New World and their contribution to the human capital and institutional formation in destination countries are popular topics in economic history. This study assesses the skill composition of 19th century transatlantic migrants to Cuba. It finds that nearly half of the European immigrants originate from the Spanish province of the Canary Islands, which displays the lowest literacy and numeracy rates of Spain. Even within this province, those who left belonged to the least skilled section of the population. By promoting the influx of a cheap and poorly educated white workforce that replaced African slaves on their sugar estates, large landowners in Cuba contributed to the perpetuation of high economic, political and social inequality.

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  • Juif, Dácil, 2015. "Skill Selectivity In Transatlantic Migration: The Case Of Canary Islanders In Cuba," Revista de Historia Económica / Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 33(2), pages 189-222, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:reveco:v:33:y:2015:i:02:p:189-222_00
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    1. Leticia Arroyo Abad & Blanca Sánchez-Alonso, 2018. "A city of trades: Spanish and Italian immigrants in late-nineteenth-century Buenos Aires, Argentina," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 12(2), pages 343-376, May.
    2. Leticia Arroyo Abad & Noel Maurer & Blanca Sánchez‐Alonso, 2021. "Paesani versus paisanos: the relative failure of Spanish immigrants in Buenos Aires during the age of mass migration," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 74(2), pages 546-567, May.
    3. Fernández, Martín & Tortorici, Gaspare, 2024. "Male and female self-selection during the Portuguese mass migration, 1885–1930," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    4. Juif, Dácil & Quiroga, Gloria, 2019. "Do you have to be tall and educated to be a migrant? Evidence from Spanish recruitment records, 1890–1950," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 34(C), pages 115-124.
    5. Blanca Sánchez‐Alonso, 2019. "The age of mass migration in Latin America," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 72(1), pages 3-31, February.
    6. María del Carmen Pérez‐Artés, 2024. "Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(2), pages 503-522, May.

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