Internal Migration in the United States: Rates, Selection, and Destination Choice, 1850-1940

Zimran, Ariell

doi:10.2139/ssrn.4196328

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“…For the cohort first observed in 1910, all but the strictest linkage 31 See also Online Appendix H, which repeats the analysis above for natives. I do not include these results in the main text because they are very similar to those of Zimran (2021), who discusses them in detail.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The estimated changes over time for 20-year spans are similar, though the base rates are higher. The nineteenth-century decline in internal mobility appears to have been unique to immigrants: Zimran (2021) shows that natives' internal migration rates were largely constant over time with evidence of a slight increase from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. 31 Figure 2 contextualizes immigrants' secondary migration within the broader US economy, comparing the estimated inter-county migration rates of immigrants and natives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper thus adds to these studies, building on them by providing information for immigrants during the Age of Mass Migration and comparing their patterns to those of natives. It most closely complements Zimran's (2021) linked data-based analysis of natives' internal migration in the period 1850-1940, as well as the studies of the rates, selection, and sorting of specific episodes of historic US internal migration (e.g., Collins and Wanamaker 2015;Hornbeck 2020;Sichko 2021;Stewart 2006).…”

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“…It is then possible to compute equation (A.2) by setting the linkage-implied inter-state migration rate in the sample of linked individuals whose family structure also enables the application of the alternative method as P (m), the birthplace-implied inter-state migration rate in this sample as P (m|t), and computing an improvement over the uncorrected estimates, and the similarity between the estimated migration rates for natives across all methods after correction helps to point to the value of the method. Indeed, when applied to natives in Online Appendix H and by Zimran (2021), the estimated inter-county migration rates of natives become very similar across linkage methods (Online Appendix Figure H.4). This figure shows the estimated rate of false matching for each linkage method and 10-year span according to the comparison of inter-state migration estimates by the linkage method and by the method based on the birth places and ages of children.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…This description is closely based on the one provided byZimran (2019, 2021), and is nearly identical to that ofZimran (2021), which uses the same linkage procedure but applies it only to the native born.61 The SAS spelling distance is not a symmetric measure. Whenever use spelling distance, I make a match when min{spedis a,b , spedis b,a }  c, where c is the linkage cutoff.…”

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US Immigrants' Secondary Migration and Geographic Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration

Zimran¹

2021

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I study the rates of, selection into, and sorting of European immigrants' secondary migration within the United States and their geographic assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration. These phenomena are recognized as important components of the economics of immigration, but data constraints have limited prior study of them in this context. As part of the debate over immigrant distribution, they were also major issues in the broader twentieth-century immigration policy debate, which were influenced by the widely held view that immigrants in the early twentieth century were less geographically mobile and specifically more attached to urban areas than were natives and earlier immigrants. I find that immigrants throughout the Age of Mass Migration were at least as likely as natives to make inter-county moves, were more attached to urban areas, were more likely to move to urban destinations, and shared natives' increasing attachment to urban areas over time. In spite of their mobility, immigrants experienced relatively little assimilation in their place-of-residence distributions relative to natives with time in the United States, though they did experience somewhat more convergence on natives in terms of urbanization. These results help to better understand immigrant assimilation and the effects of immigration during the Age of Mass Migration and imply that the contemporary views of immigrant immobility were either false, oversimplified, or the product of changes in the US economy.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%