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Title: Migration and Economic Opportunity in the 1910s: New Evidence on African-American Occupational Mobility in the North

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: This paper examines occupational mobility among African-American workers in Cincinnati. Ohio. in the late 1910s. New longitudinal evidence on this issue is developed using census manuscripts. census public use samples, and World War I Selective Service registration records. While African Americans as a whole experienced less upward occupational mobility than did whites in Cincinnati. Southern-born blacks moved up about as frequently as Northern-born blacks did. (C) 2001 Academic Press.

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Authors: Maloney, Thomas N.

Periodical (Full): Explorations in Economic History

Issue: 1

Volume: 38

Pages: 147-165

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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