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Black Migration, White Flight: The Effect of Black Migration on Northern Cities and Labor Markets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2007

Leah Platt Boustan
Leah Platt Boustan
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Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles, 8283 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1477. E-mail: lboustan@econ.ucla.edu.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 67 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 484 - 488
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