Nativism and the End of the Mass Migration of the 1840s and 1850s

Cohn, Raymond L.

doi:10.1017/s0022050700025134

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“…Note that emigration from Groningen barely lost momentum in the years 1855-1857, and it was not until 1858 that it petered out. Elsewhere in Europe, migration numbers plummeted in 1855, possibly in response to the political agitation in favor of more restrictive immigration policies in the United States (Cohn, 2000). This is consistent with our view that in the case of Groningen, push factors were stronger than pull factors at the time.…”

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Family strategies concerning migration and occupations of children in a market-oriented agricultural economy

Paping¹

2004

The History of the Family

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This study focuses on family labor strategies in the 19th and early 20th centuries, using a database containing vital information on the lives of some 3000 persons born around 1830, 1850, and 1870 in the Groningen clay soil region-a predominantly agrarian area in the northern part of the Netherlands. Working-class families were moving from short-term survival strategies to long-term investment strategies in the last decades of the 19th century. Like other occupational groups, they tended to keep their children at home in larger numbers instead of finding them jobs as live-in workers-a change probably facilitated by improving real wages. Although such a change in family strategy implied lower earnings in the short run, children who stayed home experienced more upward social mobility in later life than those who left home early to become live-in servants. The increased preference for long-term investment strategies is also apparent in migratory patterns. Independent of the phases in the family cycle, working-class families became more inclined to migrate over longer distances, especially to America where unskilled laborers had better prospects. D

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Family strategies concerning migration and occupations of children in a market-oriented agricultural economy

Paping¹

2004

The History of the Family

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“…My principal identification strategy rests on the exogeneity or the "push" factor of immigration between 1847-1854, a period which marked the first major wave of mass immigration. Many scholars agree that the most important cause of immigration during this period was the potato famine in Ireland and in other European countries (Ó Gráda and O'Rourke (1997), Cohn (2000), Hatton and Williamson (2005)). The potato famine, caused by p. infestans, a fungus-like disease that turns the potato into inedible black mush, reduced the acreage of potato in Ireland from 2.1 million acres in 1845 to a mere 0.3 million in 1847 causing massive deaths and emigration (Ó Gráda (1999), Mokyr (1985)).…”

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Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920: Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography

Kim

2007

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Industrial revolution is fundamentally linked with the rise of factories and the decline of skilled artisans in manufacturing. Most scholars agree that factories as compared to artisan shops were intensive in unskilled labor. Indeed, the hallmark of the early factories is the utilization of division of labor of relatively unskilled workers. This paper explores whether the massive influx of unskilled immigrants between 1840 and 1920, by significantly increasing the ratio of unskilled to skilled labor endowment, contributed to the growth and spread of factory manufacturing in the United States. The data indicate that immigration not only contributed to the growth and spread of factories but it also contributed to the growth of cities.

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“…Rural voters may simply have been xenophobic or may have worried about the competition that immigrants posed for their children, many of whom were moving to urban areas. On the role of nativism in depressing immigration flows in the 1850s, seeCohn (2000) Higham (2002…”

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Immigration in American Economic History

Abramitzky

Boustan²

2016

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The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants. Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This paper reviews the literatures on historical and contemporary migrant flows, yielding new insights on migrant selection, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market.

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Nativism and the End of the Mass Migration of the 1840s and 1850s

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Family strategies concerning migration and occupations of children in a market-oriented agricultural economy

Family strategies concerning migration and occupations of children in a market-oriented agricultural economy

Immigration, Industrial Revolution and Urban Growth in the United States, 1820-1920: Factor Endowments, Technology and Geography

Immigration in American Economic History

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