The Geography of Wage Discrimination in the Pre–Civil Rights South

Sundstrom, William A.

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“…The remaining differences in migration patterns reflect differences in race-specific wages across states (absorbed by race-specific destination fixed effects) and model coefficients (the 's), which are difficult to interpret definitively. Nonetheless, we believe that additional research could isolate and test specific hypotheses and interpretations (for example, whether the pattern of black-white differences in destination fixed effects correlates with a measure of local labor market discrimination, perhaps following Sundstrom 2007).…”

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The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

Collins¹,

Wanamaker

2015

J. Econ. Hist.

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We construct datasets of linked census records to study internal migrants' selection 1930). We study both whites and blacks and intra-and inter-regional migration. While there is some evidence of positive selection, the degree of selection was small and participation in migration was widespread. Differences in background, including initial location, cannot account for racial differences in destination choices. Blacks and whites were similarly responsive to pre-existing migrant stocks from their home state, but black men were more deterred by distance, attracted to manufacturing, and responsive to labor demand.A t the turn of the twentieth century, real income per worker in the South was less than one-half of that in the rest of the United States a labor demand boom in northern industrial centers and the interruption Social scientists have studied its causes and consequences for almost 100 provide additional perspective. First, we examine the migration decisions was important in its own right and provides a natural comparison for the migration patterns of blacks. Second, our analysis includes both intraand inter-regional migrants, whereas much of the previous literature has within regions, including the South, provide valuable information and a more complete picture of internal migration patterns during the early decades data that provide deeper insight than previously available into the careers that inform most quantitative studies of U.S. internal migration in the observe the same person before and after migration. 1 ante information hinders the study of how individual and local characterdestination. Furthermore, using ex post measures of migrants' outcomes or human capital that are available in cross-sectional data sources may providing a clearer view of the same men before and after the start of 1 migrants are observed before and after moving. Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants949 southern-resident males, ages 0 to 40, in 1910. We then locate the same men in the 1930 census manuscripts and transcribe data from the handless than age 18) still lived with their parents and siblings, and the older -mation on personal, household, and local background.For African Americans, the linked census records used here are the focused on measuring black men's income gains from inter-regional white and black migrants, which required the creation of a new set of -tion, this article studies both intra-regional and inter-regional migration of scholars' attention. Finally, as described later, much of this article is dedicated to studying the migrants' choices of destination and comparing black and white migration patterns across potential destinations, a topic in the history of Americans' internal migration. First, after documenting the outstanding features of southern black and white migration patterns and migrant characteristics, we investigate whether the migrants were -istics. Second, we examine how southern migrants sorted themselves across potential destinations and the extent to which personal characteristics, such...

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Section: Conditional Logit Resultsmentioning

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The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

Collins¹,

Wanamaker

2015

J. Econ. Hist.

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“…This pattern is caused in large part by historical reasons. Sundstrom (2007) shows that counties where blacks are a large share of the workforce used to be some plantation farming areas and were characterized by a strong tradition of hierarchical race relations where voters expressed segregationist preferences in the 1948 presidential election. Slave states (States in which slavery was legal in 1861 just before it was abolished by the 13th Amendment of the US Constitution in 1865) are stronger predictors of racial prejudice than the share of blacks at the state level.…”

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Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market

Combes

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Laouénan

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Journal of Labor Economics

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The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector-speci c preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run the test on French individual data in a cross-section of local labor markets (Employment Areas). Our results show that there is both employer and customer discrimination in the French labor market. JEL classi cation: J15, J61, R23

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“…Viele empirische Studien zum effekt der regionalen Konzentration stammen aus den uSA, wo zumeist unterschiede in der Arbeitsmarktperformance zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen untersucht werden. Auf regionaler ebene vergrößern sich unterschiede im Arbeitsmarkterfolg zwischen Schwarzen und Weißen im großen und ganzen mit einem Anstieg der gruppengröße (Sundstrom 2007;Frisbie u. neidert 1977;Semyonov et al 1984;Grant u. Parcel 1990;Albrecht et al 2005). Auch auf Individualebene verringert ein hoher Anteil Schwarzer ihr einkommensniveau oder erhöht ihr Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko (Parcel 1979;Tienda u. lii 1987;McCreary et al 1989;Cohen 1998).…”

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Effekte der Gruppengröße auf die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Migranten

Granato

2009

Köln Z Soziol

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Zusammenfassung:In deutschland sind zugewanderte Arbeitskräfte auch unter berücksichti-gung der relevanten Ressourcenausstattung beruflich häufig schlechter gestellt als vergleichbare einheimische. dieser beitrag untersucht empirisch mit daten des deutschen Mikrozensus, inwieweit sich diese nachteile durch die regionale Konzentration einer ethnischen Minderheit erklä-ren lassen. dazu werden zunächst grundlegende theoretische Ansätze zur Wirkung der relativen gruppengröße auf den erfolg verschiedener gruppen von Arbeitskräften dargestellt. empirisch zeigt sich, dass eine starke eigenethnische Konzentration das berufliche Prestige türkischer Erwerbstätiger mit höherem bildungsniveau verringert, d. h. es tritt ein negativer endogener effekt auf, wie ihn das Modell der ethnischen Mobilitätsfalle vorhersagt. der Anteil der türkischen bevölkerung auf Kreisebene beeinflusst aber nicht nur die Arbeitsmarktperformance türkischer Erwerbstätiger, sondern es treten auch sogenannte exogene effekte bei italienischen und deutschen Arbeitskräften auf. Insgesamt kann die relative gruppengröße einen, wenn auch vergleichsweise kleinen, beitrag zur erklärung ethnischer ungleichheiten leisten.Schlüsselwörter: ethnische ungleichheit · Arbeitsmarkterfolg · relative gruppengröße · ethnische Minderheit Regional concentration and labour market success: endogenous and exogenous effects of relative minority group size Abstract: Some ethnic minorities tend to be less successful in the german labour market compared to the indigenous population even when controlling for relevant resources. The paper uses data from the german Mikrozensus to investigate to what extent the remaining ethnic disadvantages can be explained by relative minority group size. On theoretical grounds, ethnic concentration can have an impact on the members of the own minority as well as on members of other ethnic groups. The paper finds empirical evidence that a strong ethnic concentration impedes structural assimilation of Turkish migrants with a higher level of education, as the ethnic mobility trap model would suggest. however, the share of the Turkish population in a county does not only have an impact on the labour market performance of Turkish migrants (endogenous effect) but also affects the economic success of Italians and germans (exogenous effects). The empirical 388 n. granato results indicate, that controlling for regional concentration can - at least for some minority groups and to some extent - explain remaining ethnic disadvantages. 1 Ethnische Ungleichheit auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt: Individuelle und kontextuelle Erklärungsfaktoren bislang konzentriert sich die erklärung ethnischer ungleichheit auf dem deutschen Arbeitsmarkt hauptsächlich auf unterschiede zwischen Migranten und einheimischen hinsichtlich individueller Merkmale. Im Mittelpunkt stehen zunächst die humankapitalausstattung und deren Kontextabhängigkeit. daneben zählt auch das verfügbare soziale Kapital zu den Arbeitsmarkt-relevanten Ressourcen, dessen Nutzen im beruflichen Kontext mit der e...

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The Geography of Wage Discrimination in the Pre–Civil Rights South

Cited by 20 publications

References 24 publications

The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants

Customer Discrimination and Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market

Effekte der Gruppengröße auf die Arbeitsmarktintegration von Migranten

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