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The authors find that strict immigration quotas in the past did not result in higher wages for U.S.-born workers. Instead, wages fell for U.S. workers in labor markets that were most affected by the decline in immigrant numbers while ongoing industrial and labor market transitions were accelerated. In rural areas, the farming industry moved toward automation. In urban areas, labor markets ...
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This era of open immigration ended in the 1920s with a series of increasingly restrictive immigration quotas, eventually limiting entry from affected countries to 150,000 a year.1 As a result, the foreign-born share of the population fell from 14 percent in 1920 to 5 percent in 1970 (see Figure 1).
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- Ran Abramitzky, Philipp Ager, Leah Boustan, Elior David Cohen, Casper Worm Hansen
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Jun 25, 2018 · In 1914, the peak year of immigration, more than 1.2 million people arrived in the United States; by the late 1920s, that number had fallen to about 300,000 annually, and it had plunged to about 30,000 per year by the mid-1930s. 3 But the passage of the 1924 Act did little to repair the urban-rural cultural and political divide.
Sep 1, 2022 · Immigration to the United States did decrease in the wake of the 1924 Immigration Act, but it did not stagnate. Instead, it changed form, composition, and legal expression. 14 Except for important revisions in 1952, the immigration system created in the 1920s remained in place until 1965, when Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.
In 1921 and 1924, the US Congress passed immigration laws that severely limited the number and “national origin” of new immigrants. These laws did not change in the 1930s, as desperate Jewish refugees attempted to immigrate from Nazi Germany. 2. After World War II, the American people continued to oppose increased immigration.
Dec 9, 2019 · In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country-specific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement. A puzzle emerges: the earnings of existing US-born workers declined after the border closure, despite the ...
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The Effects of Immigration on the Economy: Lessons from the 1920s Border Closure In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country-specific quotas. We compare local labor markets differentially exposed to the quotas due to variation in the national-origin mix of their immigrant population.
