TY - JOUR
T1 - DISCRIMINATION, MIGRATION, AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
T2 - EVIDENCE FROM WORLD WAR I
AU - Ferrara, Andreas
AU - Fishback, Price
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2024/9/6
Y1 - 2024/9/6
N2 - This paper examines the individual and aggregate costs of ethnic discrimination. Studying Germans in the United States during World War I, an event that abruptly downgraded their previously high social standing, we show that anti-German sentiment was strongly associated with counties’ casualties in the war, leading to subsequent outmigration of Germans. Such relocation to evade discrimination was costly for German workers. However, counties with larger outflows of Germans, who tended to be welltrained manufacturing workers, incurred economic costs too, including a drop in average annual manufacturing wages of 0.6% to 2.2%. This effect lasted at least until 1930.
AB - This paper examines the individual and aggregate costs of ethnic discrimination. Studying Germans in the United States during World War I, an event that abruptly downgraded their previously high social standing, we show that anti-German sentiment was strongly associated with counties’ casualties in the war, leading to subsequent outmigration of Germans. Such relocation to evade discrimination was costly for German workers. However, counties with larger outflows of Germans, who tended to be welltrained manufacturing workers, incurred economic costs too, including a drop in average annual manufacturing wages of 0.6% to 2.2%. This effect lasted at least until 1930.
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U2 - 10.1162/rest_a_01209
DO - 10.1162/rest_a_01209
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85204397267
SN - 0034-6535
VL - 106
SP - 1201
EP - 1219
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
IS - 5
ER -