Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
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Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
By (Author) Leah Platt Boustan
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
16th January 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Labour / income economics
Ethnic studies
331.6396073
Physical Properties
Hardback
216
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
Description
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 Blac
Reviews
"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
Author Bio
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.
