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Title: Enter Stage Left: Immigration and the Creative Arts in America

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Publication Year: 2021

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Abstract: To what extent have immigrants contributed to the growth of the United States creative arts economy? In this paper, we explore the impact of immigration during the Age of Mass Migration on the development of the arts in the U.S. over the past century. In the short run, our results suggest that immigration helped produce greater numbers of native artists. Over a century later, counties with greater historical immigration house more arts businesses and nonprofit organizations that generate more revenue, employ a larger proportion of the community, and have earned more federal arts grants. When evaluating potential mechanisms, we see that arts developmenwas not solely attributable to immigrant artists or artists from immigrant families. Our analysis instead suggests that broader interactions between the general immigrant population and natives contributed to this growth. Altogether, our results highlight the important role that immigrants played in the early development of the creative arts in America.

Url: https://conference.iza.org/conference_files/AMM_2021/winichakul_k31188.pdf

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Authors: Winichakul, K. Pun; Zhang, Ning

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Publisher Location: Pittsburg

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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