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Title: The Impact of the Great Migration on Employment Outcomes of Black Northerners
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Publication Year: 2018
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ISSN: 00207985
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Abstract: Prior to the Great Migration taking place, there were communities of middle class blacks living in the North. I study the migration of southern blacks into the urban North during the first Great Migration (1916-1930), and estimate its effects on northern-born blacks’ employment outcomes. I exploit variations in the extent of inmigration across northern counties and instrument migration inflow by interacting exogenous demographic patterns in the South before the migration with the pre-existing southern-born black’s settlement patterns in the North. I find that northern-born blacks from high in-migration counties had lower probability of employment; if employed, however, they had higher occupational standing on average than northernborn blacks from low in-migration counties. Their occupational advancement could have arisen from the newly generated commercial demand for black consumers in the expanded ghetto that provided more opportunities for northern-born blacks to higherpaid jobs.
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Authors: Li, Sijie
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Race and Ethnicity
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