Introduction to "Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets"

Leah Platt Boustan
Published Date
Copyright 2017
ISBN 978-0-691-15087-1
DOI 10.23943/princeton/9780691150871.003.0001
Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Book: Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets
Book author: Leah Platt Boustan
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press
Series: Long-Term Factors in Economic Development

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