Boustan, Leah Platt; Fishback, Price Van Meter; Kantor, … - 2007
contemporary studies of immigration, our results indicate that residents of metropolitan areas with high in-migration rates did not …During the Great Depression, as in the modern era, in-migrants were accused of taking jobs and crowding relief rolls …, rather than the foreign born. Using aggregate data on internal migration flows matched to individual records from the 1940 …