Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/169287 
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Year of Publication: 
2016
Citation: 
[Journal:] IZA Journal of Migration [ISSN:] 2193-9039 [Volume:] 5 [Issue:] 22 [Publisher:] Springer [Place:] Heidelberg [Year:] 2016 [Pages:] 1-45
Publisher: 
Springer, Heidelberg
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Migration
Immigration
Internal migration
Great Migration
Local labor markets
National labor market
Wages
Spatial arbitrage
JEL: 
J15
J61
R23
N32
N92
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