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The Effects of Immigration in Brazil

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2025.03.27

Although developing countries are important destinations for international migrants―hosting over 40 percent of the world’s migrants―the effects of immigration in these countries are not as well understood as they are in developed countries. Our research expands on the existing research by studying the e？ects of European immigration to Brazil from 1855 to 1920, focusing on Brazil’s agricultural sector in 1920. Brazil was then an overwhelmingly agrarian economy with an emerging industrial sector. Brazilian policymakers initially encouraged immigration from Europe to provide labor for the agricultural sector through immigration subsidies (partially in response to the decline of slavery and its eventual abolition in 1888). But even outside these programs, immigrants entered the agricultural sector in large numbers. Our research investigates whether immigration supported the development of Brazil’s agricultural sector, measured by the change in the value of farms in Brazilian municipalities. Additionally, it investigates whether agrarian immigration delayed or promoted the country’s economic transformation.

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