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Immigration and wages

New evidence from the African American Great Migration

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ID3099134
AuthorsJohn Gardner (0000-0001-7417-348X, University of Mississippi, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume5
Issue1
Publication date2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIZA Journal of Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2193-9039 • E-ISSN: 2193-9039
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s40176-016-0070-2
OpenAlexW2555701356
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited30

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

Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Labour economics · Real wages · Wage · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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Unique citing works5
Citations per year0,5
Citation span2016 - 2024 (9)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 5
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