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Title: Occupational mobility of black migrants in the West during the 1950s

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Publication Year: 2015

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Abstract: Previous research on the Great Migration in the USA has focused on the economic outcomes of black migrants in the North. In comparison, the economic outcomes of black migrants in the West, particularly during the second wave of the Great Migration that occurred between 1940 and 1970, have not been fully explored in the literature. This article analyzes the occupational mobility of southern-born black male migrants in the West in the 1950s relative to various subgroups residing in the West: western-born white and black males and southern-born white males. Regression results from the 1% 1950 and the 1960 census microdata samples indicate that unlike in the North in the 1910s where southern-born blacks were not as upwardly mobile as northern-born blacks during the first wave of the Great Migration, there was no difference between western-born blacks and southern-born blacks in their probability of getting employed in a particular occupational class in the West in the 1950s, during the second wave of the Great Migration. However, compared to white males, although the majority of black males remained employed in lower-blue-collar occupations (as laborers and service workers), southern-born blacks were successful at increasing their representation in upper-blue-collar occupations (into Crafts/Sales).

Url: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0023656X.2015.991563#tabModule

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Authors: Tiagi, Raaj

Periodical (Full): Labor History

Issue: 1

Volume: 56

Pages: 58-68

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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