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"Co-Winner of the 2018 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association"
"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
"Boustan offers several original and valuable insights and extensions [to the existing literature]."---Howard Bodenhorn, EH.Net
"Highly recommended for anyone studying mid-twentieth-century black migration in the United States and racially segregated labor markets and housing patterns in northern American cities."---Farley Grubb, Journal of Southern History
"Competition in the Promised Land effectively revises and extends the voluminous scholarship on the Great Migration, demonstrating what the very best of economic history can bring to the study of the history of African Americans."---Keona K. Ervin, Michigan Historical Review

Competition in the Promised Land

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 9 June 2020
      ISBN-13 9780691202495
      978-0691202495
      ISBN-10 0691202494
      Also in:
      Economics Industrial relations, occupational health Labour / income economics

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Co-Winner of the 2018 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History Association"
      "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
      "Boustan offers several original and valuable insights and extensions [to the existing literature]."---Howard Bodenhorn, EH.Net
      "Highly recommended for anyone studying mid-twentieth-century black migration in the United States and racially segregated labor markets and housing patterns in northern American cities."---Farley Grubb, Journal of Southern History
      "Competition in the Promised Land effectively revises and extends the voluminous scholarship on the Great Migration, demonstrating what the very best of economic history can bring to the study of the history of African Americans."---Keona K. Ervin, Michigan Historical Review

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