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The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression / Leah Platt Boustan, Price V. Fishback, Shawn E. Kantor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boustan, Leah Platt.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w13276.
- NBER working paper series no. w13276
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2007.
- Summary:
- During the Great Depression, as today, migrants were accused of taking jobs and crowding relief rolls. At the time, protest concerned internal migrants rather than the foreign born. We investigate the effect of net migration on local labor markets, instrumenting for migrant flows to a destination with extreme weather events and variation in New Deal programs in typical sending areas. Migration had little effect on the hourly earnings of existing residents. Instead, migration prompted some residents to move away and others to lose weeks of work and/or access to relief jobs. Given the period's high unemployment, these lost work opportunities were costly to existing residents.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2007.
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