The Effects of Immigration Quotas on Wages, the Great Black Migration, and Industrial Development

Bin Xie ()
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Bin Xie: Jinan University

No 11214, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: This paper exploits the exogenous and differential immigrant supply shocks caused by the immigration quota system in the 1920s to identify the causal effects of the immigration restriction on the US manufacturing wages, the Great Migration, and industrial production between 1920 and 1930. I find that the immigration restriction significantly increased manufacturing wages and encouraged the southern black population to migrate to the North. I also find that the decline in the immigrant supply constrained the growth of the scale of manufacturing production and discouraged technology adoption of electrification.

Keywords: Great Black Migration; immigration restriction; industrial development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 K37 N32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 68 pages
Date: 2017-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Published - published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2025, 53 (1), 25-55

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