Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets

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Leah Platt Boustan

Competition in the Promised Land

Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets

Leah Platt Boustan

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English

Princeton University Press
18 August 2020

Black & Asian studies; Labour economics; Economic history

Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Publications

From 1940 to 1970, nearly four million black migrants left the American rural South to settle in the industrial cities of the North and West. Competition in the Promised Land provides a comprehensive account of the long-lasting effects of the influx of black workers on labor markets and urban space in receiving areas.

Traditionally, the Great Black Migration has been lauded as a path to general black economic progress. Leah Boustan challenges this view, arguing instead that the migration produced winners and losers within the black community. Boustan shows that migrants themselves gained tremendously, more than doubling their earnings by moving North. But these new arrivals competed with existing black workers, limiting black-white wage convergence in Northern labor markets and slowing black economic growth. Furthermore, many white households responded to the black migration by relocating to the suburbs. White flight was motivated not only by neighborhood racial change but also by the desire on the part of white residents to avoid participating in the local public services and fiscal obligations of increasingly diverse cities.

Employing historical census data and state-of-the-art econometric methods, Competition in the Promised Land revises our understanding of the Great Black Migration and its role in the transformation of American society.

By: Leah Platt Boustan
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780691202495
ISBN 10: 0691202494
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Publications
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 18 August 2020
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leah Platt Boustan is professor of economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Reviews for Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets

""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