Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: U.S. Labor Markets after the Civil War

Rosenbloom, Joshua L.

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“…Yet why did labor migration fail to narrow this gap before the 1940s? Wright (1986) has argued that prior to the New Deal, the southern labor market remained isolated from the rest of the country, in large part because the demand for low-skilled labor in the industrializing North was satisfied by European 6 For reviews of the evidence on the importance of the stock of fellow migrants from the same source location in explaining migration flows (so-called chain migration), see also Greenwood (1975) and Rosenbloom (1994). The presence of fellow migrants may reduce migration costs by providing credit or housing and may increase expected benefits of moving by providing information on work opportunities and actual contacts or referrals with local employers.…”

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The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence From the Ipums, 1850–1990

Rosenbloom¹,

Sundstrom²

Research in Economic History

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We examine evidence on trends in interstate migration over the past 150 years, using data from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series of the U.S. Census (IPUMS). Two measures of migration are calculated. The first considers an individual to have moved if she is residing in a state different from her state of birth. The second considers a family to have moved if it is residing in a state different from the state of birth of one of its young children. The latter measure allows us estimate the timing of moves more accurately. Our results suggest that overall migration propensities have followed a U-shaped trend since 1850, falling until around 1900 and then rising until around 1970. We examine variation in the propensity to make an interstate move by age, sex, race, nativity, region of origin, family structure, and education. Counterfactuals based on probit estimates of the propensity to migrate suggest that the rise in migration of families since 1900 is largely attributable to increased educational attainment. The decline of interstate migration in the late nineteenth century remains to be explained.

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The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence From the Ipums, 1850–1990

Rosenbloom¹,

Sundstrom²

Research in Economic History

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Running out of time: using job ads to analyse the demand for messengers in the twentieth century

Håkansson

Karlsson

Mela

2022

Scandinavian Economic History Review

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Space, Time, and Volition: Dimensions of Migration Theory

Fussell

2012

Oxford Handbook of the Politics of International Migration

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This article lays out three overarching dimensions of current theoretical models of migration flows: a “spatial” dimension, which describes pushes and pulls in origin and destination countries; a “temporal” dimension, which explains why migration streams begin and either grow or dissipate; and a “volitional” dimension, which explains at the individual level how migrants respond to these forces and to the changing context in which migration occurs. The spatial dimension includes the four primary models of migration, based on neoclassical economics, world systems theory, the new economics of labor migration, and social capital theory. By placing these demographic-economic approaches into a synthetic, three-dimensional framework, the article addresses the discrete causes of migration while bridging the artificial (often disciplinary) divide among competing explanations.

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Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: U.S. Labor Markets after the Civil War

Cited by 6 publications

References 42 publications

The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence From the Ipums, 1850–1990

The Decline and Rise of Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence From the Ipums, 1850–1990

Running out of time: using job ads to analyse the demand for messengers in the twentieth century

Space, Time, and Volition: Dimensions of Migration Theory

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