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04225aam a2200577 i 4500 001 A86DFCECE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160809t20172017njua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016013428 020 $a 0691150877 020 $a 9780691150871 035 $a (OCoLC)956583453 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d YDXCP $d OCLCF $d NJM $d UOK $d OBE $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E185.6 $b .B77 2016 082 00 $a 305.896/073 $2 23 084 $a HIS054000 $a BUS038000 $a BUS092000 $a HIS036060 $a HIS054000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Boustan, Leah Platt, $e author. 245 10 $a Competition in the promised land : $b black migrants in northern cities and labor markets / $c Leah Platt Boustan. 264 1 $a Princeton, New Jersey : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a xv, 197 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a NBER series on long-term factors in economic development 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-186) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Black migration from the South in historical context -- Who left the South and how did they fare? -- Competition in northern labor markets -- Black migration, white flight -- Motivations for white flight : the role of fiscal/political interactions -- Black migration, northern cities, and labor markets after 1970. 520 $a "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 by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers, limiting black-white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore, many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid local public services and fiscal obligations in increasingly diverse cities. Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a African Americans $x History $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Migration, Internal $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Rural-urban migration $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Economic conditions $y 20th century. 650 0 $a African Americans $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Social History. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a African Americans $x Economic conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799599 650 7 $a African Americans $x Migrations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799643 650 7 $a African Americans $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00799698 650 7 $a Migration, Internal. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01020741 650 7 $a Rural-urban migration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01101940 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a NBER series on long-term factors in economic development. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214011737.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170203032836.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A86DFCECE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search