Immigrant artists: Enrichment or displacement?

Karol Borowiecki and Kathryn Graddy ()

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, vol. 191, issue C, 785-797

Abstract: In order to investigate the role of immigrant artists on the development of artistic clusters in U.S. cities, we use the U.S. Census and American Community Survey, collected every 10 years between 1850 and 2010. We identify artists, authors, musicians, actors, architects, and journalists, their geographical location and their status as a native or an immigrant. We look at the relative growth rate of the immigrant population in these occupations over a ten year period and how it affects the relative growth rate of native-born individuals in these artistic occupations. We find that cities that experienced immigrant artist inflows, also see a greater inflow of native artists.

Keywords: Migration; Agglomeration economies; Cities; Artists (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 N30 Z11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2021.09.007

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