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Title: Home, Neighborhood, Job: Birthplace and Neighborhood Effects on African American Occupational Status and Occupational Mobility in World War I-Era Cincinnati, Ohio

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: How might the location of a worker's home affect their work prospects and in particular their occupational mobility? This question arises in the study of African American economic history in a number of ways. As African Americans migrated into Northern US cities in the early twentieth century, settled into developing black communities in those cities, and entered into industrial labor markets, their job prospects may have been widened or narrowed by the influence of either of their "homes" - their place of birth or their new neighborhood. Some researchers have argued that black migrants who came from rural places may have been less prepared for life in the urban North and that their job prospects may have therefore suffered relative to migrants from urban Researchers have also speculated about the labor market impact of residence in the growing racially-segregated neighborhoods of Northern cities. Did residence in these areas in the late 1910s have the same kinds of negative impacts on job prospects that have been found for such neighborhoods in more recent times?

Url: https://www2.clarku.edu/faculty/jbrown/papers/maloney.pdf

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Authors: Maloney, Thomas, N

Publisher: University of Utah

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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