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Was the African American Great Migration Delayed by Outlawing Emigrant Agents?

Prentice, Kha; Kónya, László; Prentice, David - 2013

The question of why more African Americans did not migrate earlier out of the stagnant and repressive South after emancipation remains open. Previous work has highlighted the role of demand and supply conditions. At the time, though, there was much concern about the role of emigrant agents who...

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

Gardner, John - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45

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...

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Demonstrating Their Freedom : The Post-Emancipation Migration of Black Americans

Vedder, Richard K.; Galloway, Lowell; Graves, Philip E.; … - 2011

Why did newly freed slaves and their descendants wait a half century before migrating in large numbers to the superior economic opportunities in the North? Census lifetime migration data on both movers and stayers are examined intertemporally for both whites and blacks. Regression analysis...

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The effects of immigration quotas on wages, the great black migration, and industrial development

Xie, Bin - 2017

This paper exploits the exogenous and differential immigrant supply shocks caused by the immigration quota system in the 1920s to identify the causal effects of the immigration restriction on the US manufacturing wages, the Great Migration, and industrial production between 1920 and 1930. I find...

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Immigrant locations and native residential preferences : emerging ghettos or new communities?

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2017

While the impact of immigrants on labor markets may be small, strong political movements voicing opposition to the growth of resident foreign-born populations are on the upswing. We study whether natives voted with their feet in reaction to the largest and fastest migration shock in the OECD....

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The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development

Xie, Bin - 2017

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Family migration and relative earnings potentials

Foged, Mette - 2016

A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable … predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family …

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Sorted and settled : migration decisions of dual income families

Taşkin, Ahmet Ali - 2014

I analyze the interstate migration patterns of families and the effect of labor force attachment of women on joint migration decisions. I show that as the earned income of spouses become similar, the probability of migration falls substantially. This observation is robust in the sense that 1) it...

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Migration of Graduates within a Sequential Decision Framework : Evidence from Poland

Herbst, Mikolaj - 2014

According to the economic literature human capital is a critical growth factor. This is why migration of individuals well endowed with human capital is subject of interest for both academics and policymakers. The aim of this paper is to identify main drivers of highly skilled migration within...

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Family Migration Decisions

Mincer, Jacob - 2021

This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to … most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions … and explains their effects on the probability of migration, on consequent changes in employment and earnings of family …

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