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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP14396
	DP14396 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration
	Vasiliki Fouka; Soumyajit Mazumder; Marco Tabellini
发表日期	2020-02-09
出版年	2020
语种	英语
摘要	How does the appearance of a new minority group affect the social acceptance and outcomes of existing minorities? We study this question in the context of the First Great Migration. Between 1915 and 1930, 1.5 million African Americans moved from the US South to Northern urban centers, which were home to millions of European immigrants arrived in previous decades. We formalize and empirically test the hypothesis that Black inflows changed perceptions of outgroup distance among native-born whites, reducing the barriers to the social integration of European immigrants. Predicting Black in-migration with a version of the shift-share instrument, we find that immigrants living in areas that received more Black migrants experienced higher assimilation along a range of outcomes, such as naturalization rates and intermarriages with native-born spouses. Evidence from the historical press and patterns of heterogeneity across immigrant nationalities provide additional support to the role of shifting perceptions of the white majority.
主题	Economic History ; Labour Economics ; Public Economics
关键词	Immigration Assimilation Great migration Race Group identity
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp14396-1
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/543290
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Vasiliki Fouka,Soumyajit Mazumder,Marco Tabellini. DP14396 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation during the Great Migration. 2020.