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Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Leah Platt Boustan
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Description for Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Hardback. BIC Classification: WZ. Dimension: 250 x 150. Weight in Grams: 666.
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. Competition in the Promised Land 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. Leah Boustan challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings ... Read more
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. Competition in the Promised Land 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. Leah Boustan challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
National Bureau of Economic Research Publications
Condition
New
Weight
491g
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691150871
SKU
V9780691150871
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About Leah Platt Boustan
Leah Platt Boustan is professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Reviews for Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
In her rich and technical account Competition in the Promised Land, Leah Boustan employs the tools of her trade
resourceful matching of data sets, rigorous modeling of labor phenomena, sweeping use of census figures
to analyze the demographics and economics of the Great Migration as a whole.
James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review
resourceful matching of data sets, rigorous modeling of labor phenomena, sweeping use of census figures
to analyze the demographics and economics of the Great Migration as a whole.
James Ryerson, New York Times Book Review