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Title: Unequal Opportunity? Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in the Returns to Internal U.S. Migration
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Leibbrand, Christine |
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Unequal Opportunity? Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in the Returns to Internal U.S. Migration Social Currents 7,1 (1 February 2020): 46-70. Also: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2329496519869339 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Economic Well-Being; Ethnic Differences; Gender Differences; Geocoded Data; Migration; Racial Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Internal U.S. migration plays an important role in increasing individuals' access to economic and social opportunities. At the same time, race, ethnicity, and gender have frequently shaped the opportunities and obstacles individuals face. It is therefore likely that the returns to internal migration are also shaped by race, ethnicity, and gender, though we have relatively little knowledge of whether this is the case for contemporary internal U.S. migration. To explore this possibility, I use restricted, geocoded National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 data from 1979 to 2012. I find that white men gain the most economically from migrating, relative to black and Latino men. For women, migration is associated with stable or narrower racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes, with Latina women experiencing the largest economic benefits associated with migration and with black and white women exhibiting comparable economic returns to migration. Together, these findings indicate that migration may maintain or even narrow racial/ethnic disparities in economic outcomes among women, but widen them among men. |
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Leibbrand, Christine. "Unequal Opportunity? Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in the Returns to Internal U.S. Migration." Social Currents 7,1 (1 February 2020): 46-70.
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