Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177018 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11214
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
immigration restriction
Great Black Migration
industrial development
JEL: 
J61
K37
N32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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