Immigration Disruptions and the Wages of Unskilled Labor in the 1920s
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Keywords
immigration; wages; labor force;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- N31 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2023-05-15 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-INT-2023-05-15 (International Trade)
- NEP-MIG-2023-05-15 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-URE-2023-05-15 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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