The Labor Demand Was Downward Sloping: Disentangling Migrants' Inflows and Outflows, 1929-1957

Costanza Biavaschi

No 7049, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence, immigrant arrivals were substitutes of the existing workforce, while out-migration reduced the competitive pressure on labor markets.

Keywords: impact of migration; migration flows (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J01 J61 N32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2012-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118 (3), 531–534

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