Migration and Economic Opportunity in the 1910s: New Evidence on African-American Occupational Mobility in the North

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2001 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Explorations in Economic History, volume 38, pages 147-165 (issn: 0014-4983,

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Authors: Thomas N. Maloney;

doi: 10.1006/exeh.2000.0760

Migration and Economic Opportunity in the 1910s: New Evidence on African-American Occupational Mobility in the North

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Abstract This paper examines occupational mobility among African-American workers in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1910s. New longitudinal evidence on this issue is developed using census manuscripts, census public use samples, and World War I Selective Service registration records. While African Americans as a whole experienced less upward occupational mobility than did whites in Cincinnati, Southern-born blacks moved up about as frequently as Northern-born blacks did.

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