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"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

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Black Migration from the South in Historical Context 14 2 Who Left the South and How Did They Fare? 39 3 Competition in Northern Labor Markets 65 4 Black Migration, White Flight 93 5 Motivations for White Flight: The Role of Fiscal/Political Interactions 122 Epilogue: Black Migration, Northern Cities, and Labor Markets after 1970 154 References 165 Index 187

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      Publisher: Princeton University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 08/11/2016
      ISBN13: 9780691150871, 978-0691150871
      ISBN10: 0691150877

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "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

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1 Black Migration from the South in Historical Context 14 2 Who Left the South and How Did They Fare? 39 3 Competition in Northern Labor Markets 65 4 Black Migration, White Flight 93 5 Motivations for White Flight: The Role of Fiscal/Political Interactions 122 Epilogue: Black Migration, Northern Cities, and Labor Markets after 1970 154 References 165 Index 187

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