Immigration and wages: new evidence from the African American Great Migration

Artikel

During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has largely been overlooked in the literature. In this paper, I use both local wage comparisons and structural simulations of the aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling the evidence that it caused large declines in wages for blacks, with little effect for whites. The agreement between my local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are related and how that relationship can be measured.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Journal: IZA Journal of Migration ; ISSN: 2193-9039 ; Volume: 5 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 22 ; Pages: 1-45 ; Heidelberg: Springer

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics ; Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: U.S.; Canada: 1913- ; Regional and Urban History: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
• Thema: Migration ; Immigration ; Internal migration ; Great Migration ; Local labor markets ; National labor market ; Wages ; Spatial arbitrage

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gardner, John
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Springer
• (wo): Heidelberg
• (wann): 2016

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.1186/s40176-016-0070-2
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/169287
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ