Argentina and the United States were the principal destinations for Italian immigrants during the Age of Mass Migration. I assemble data following Italians from passenger lists to censuses in Argentina and the United States, enabling me to compare the economic outcomes of migrants with similar pre-migration characteristics but who moved to different countries. Italians assimilated faster in Argentina, and this advantage was unlikely to be due to selection. A higher human capital relative to natives and the Italian-Spanish similarity largely explain Italians’ advantage in Argentina. These findings highlight the importance of the fit between migrants’ characteristics and those of the receiving country.

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南部（美国）热情好客：大规模移民时代阿根廷和美国的意大利人

在大规模移民时代，阿根廷和美国是意大利移民的主要目的地。我收集了从乘客名单到阿根廷和美国人口普查的意大利人数据，使我能够比较具有相似移民前特征但移居不同国家的移民的经济成果。意大利人在阿根廷的同化速度更快，这种优势不太可能是由于选择。相对于当地人而言，较高的人力资本和意大利和西班牙的相似性在很大程度上解释了意大利人在阿根廷的优势。这些发现强调了移民特征与接收国特征相匹配的重要性。