Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migration and Racial Wage Convergence in the North, 1940-1970
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Four million blacks left the South from 1940 to 1970, doubling the northern black workforce. I exploit variation in migrant flows within skill groups over time to estimate the elasticity of substitution by race. I then use this estimate to calculate counterfactual rates of wage growth. I find that
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美国国家经济研究局创建时间:
2008-02-01



