Competition in the promised land: Black migration and racial wage convergence in the North, 1940-1970

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 755-782

  Boustan, Leah Platt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); ECONOMIC HISTORY; ESTIMATION METHOD; MIGRATION; WAGE;

EID: 70450273180     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050709001119     Document Type: Article

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