Competition in the Promised Land

Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20032353
AutoresLeah Platt Boustan (0000-0002-9968-7265, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Páginas197
Data de publicação2016-11-08
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoCompetition in the Promised Land (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.23943/princeton/9780691150871.001.0001
OpenAlexW2792119905
Open LibraryOL27226466M
ISBN9780691150871
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas25

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. This book provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas. Traditionally, the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general black economic progress. This book challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. The book shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers, limiting black–white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore, many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid participating in the local public services and fiscal obligations of increasingly diverse cities. Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, this book revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society

Census · Competition (biology) · Convergence (economics) · Development economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economic rent · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Limiting · Market economy · Political science · Population · Real estate · Sociology · Wage · White (mutation) · Demography · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · 20th century · African americans · Business & Economics · Development · Economic conditions · Economic history · History · Internal Migration · Labor · Migration, internal · Migrations · Rural-urban migration · Social conditions · Social history · united states