Selective migration, wages, and occupational mobility in nineteenth century America

Salisbury, Laura

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2014.02.001

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“…In contrast, when returns to skills are relatively low, migrants tend to be positively selected in terms of skills. Even though the empirical support for this model is far from unanimous, there is at least some confirmatory evidence in the literature on historical migration, both international and internal (e.g., Ferrie 1999;Long 2005;Abramitzky, Boustan and Eriksson 2012;Stolz and Baten 2012;Salisbury 2014;Eriksson and Stanfors 2015). However, the costs of migration are also important, and it has been argued that this is why the poorest segments of the sending populations do not move even when there appears to be clear incentives for them to do so (e.g., Hatton and Williamson 1994;Wegge 2002).…”

Section: Migration and Social Mobilitymentioning

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Migration, marriage and social mobility: Women in Sweden 1880–1900

Dribe

Eriksson

Scalone

2019

Explorations in Economic History

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Copyright is held by the author(s). Lund Papers in Economic Demography are circulated for discussion and have not been peer-reviewed or reviewed by the Centre for Economic Demography. The views expressed are those of the author(s). CENTRE FOR ECONOMIC DEMOGRAPHY The Centre for Economic Demography (CED), established in 2006 as a Linnaeus Centre of Excellence, is a multidisciplinary research centre at Lund University with members from the School of Economics and Management, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Social Sciences. The mission of CED is to promote research and training in population studies. Researchers at the Centre study demographic issues from different perspectives and in a variety of contexts across time and space. More information at www.ed.lu.

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Section: Migration and Social Mobilitymentioning

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Migration, marriage and social mobility: Women in Sweden 1880–1900

Dribe

Eriksson

Scalone

2019

Explorations in Economic History

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“…There are many excellent studies of individual wealth accumulation and economic mobility of migrants during this period, including extant and emerging urban centers (e.g., Thernstrom 1973, Herscovici 1998, Ferrie 2005, Salisbury 2014, Conley and Galenson 1998, and DiMatteo 1997, and DiMatteo 2001) and analyses of broad scale immigrant assimilation (e.g. Abramitzky et al 2014).…”

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“…Although many studies fall short of it, a study of individual-level wealth accumulation or inequality would ideally track individuals across immigration paths rather than in a geographically limited sample or urban communities, requiring linked longitudinal individual records. This would seem especially true when immigrant occupational mobility was often associated with migratory movement (Salisbury 2014). However, there may be limited utility to longitudinal tracking of individual immigrants in the context of newly emergent industrial cities and in understanding urban immigrant community processes where very rapid growth was characterized by both a high rate of individual-level immigration and out migration over the formative periods considered.…”

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“…Importantly, the focus of our study on emergent industrial cities that were essentially created or recreated during this period of high immigration is also distinct from studies of immigrants, and immigrant communities, in the large extant cities of the Eastern seaboard, or from those for large U.S. cities in general, in respect to both demographic behaviors and immigrant composition (e.g., Haraven and Vinovskis, 1978 e.g., Haraven and Vinovskis, 1975, Thernstrom 1973, Herscovici 1993, Ferrie 2005, Salisbury 2014) as well as the development of immigrant communities. Emergent, growing middle-sized cities of Massachusetts were quite different from the large established metropolises of the coast.…”

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Immigration, Occupation, and Inequality in Emergent Nineteenth-Century New England Cities

2017

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This paper explores the social interactions of immigration, occupation and wealth in two urban industrial cities of nineteenth century New England that were largely built upon, and shaped by, immigration: the very rapidly growing factory town of Holyoke, Massachusetts and a more mixed market and steadily growing nearby community of Northampton, Massachusetts. Both communities were emergent, rapidly industrializing, inland cities, providing a quite distinct immigration context than large established cities of the East Coast. Both were destinations for the same general ethnic immigration waves over the late nineteenth century, but with very different, and differently impacted, social spaces into which immigrants arrived. Contrasting and considering both these emergent cities allows us to ascertain the extent to which the occupational distribution and accumulation of wealth by immigrant groups supports the broad pattern of nineteenth-century assimilation, and reveals ways in which other migration processes may have been at odds, or intertwined, with the long-term historical assimilation of immigrants in such communities. Our findings support a traditional assimilationist perspective in emergent urban-industrial centers. However, they also reveal the role of universal immiseration in an industrial city dual-labor market in facilitating or forcing assimilation, the temporal advantages for ethnic groups of arriving early in growing settlements, and the more individualistic nature of economic enclaves in gaining advantages over time that did not manifest across broad immigrant or occupational groups.

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“…Our findings about the skill selectivity of migrants also point to social rather than purely economic motives for migration among veterans. Most studies of internal migration during the mid-19th century find that migrants were negatively selected on skill, measured by occupational status (Ferrie 1997;Stewart 2006;Salisbury 2014). While we find some evidence that Union and Confederate veterans who migrated out of their their pre-Civil War county were negatively selected on family wealth, we find no evidence of negative selection on occupational attainment.…”

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Migration Responses to Conflict: Evidence from the Border of the American Civil War

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Salisbury²,

Shertzer³

2016

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and Yale, as well as participants at meetings of the Canadian Network for Economic History and the Social Science History Association for helpful comments. We also thank Zvezdomir Todorov for excellent research assistance The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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Selective migration, wages, and occupational mobility in nineteenth century America

Cited by 21 publications

References 19 publications

Migration, marriage and social mobility: Women in Sweden 1880–1900

Migration, marriage and social mobility: Women in Sweden 1880–1900

Immigration, Occupation, and Inequality in Emergent Nineteenth-Century New England Cities

Migration Responses to Conflict: Evidence from the Border of the American Civil War

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