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Title: The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: We construct a new dataset of linked census records to study internal migrants selection and destination choices during the first decades of the Great Migration (1910 to 1930). While there is some evidence of positive selection into migration, the degree of selection was generally small and participation in migration was widespread. Differences in background characteristics, including initial location, cannot account for racial differences in destination choices. Black and white men were similarly responsive to pre-existing migrant networks, but black men were more deterred by distance, attracted to manufacturing centers, and responsive to variation in labor demand.

Url: http://economics.stanford.edu/files/BW_Paper_Tables_Appendix.pdf

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Authors: Collins, William J.; Wanamaker, Marianne H.

Publisher: Stanford University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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