Claudia Goldin: evaluation

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…What best predicted anti-immigration sentiment in the 1920s? Well, what probably best predicted it was a combination — it appeared from some ancient work I’ve done — of areas that got immigrants, and had reduced the opportunities for others in the area, and for whom the immigrant groups that were there already were not the ones who were flooding in. One could think of the various parts of the country. Ironically, the South was really pro-immigrant for the longest time because it viewed these immigrants as a wonderful substitute for a labor force that was migrating north and had, for decades, not been slave. So, the South was pro-immigrant. They became anti-immigrant only when they realized that immigrants weren’t going there, and when they were going there, they were Italians, and they were dark. These were pretty racist people. In the North, the places that began to shift being anti-immigrant — and I was looking more at the shifts of voting for legislation that would put in place rules for literacy — those places were places that did not have large numbers of people from eastern, central, and southern Europe. The people there went on slamming the door in the face of their relatives. Very last question. Your book is coming out. Again, that book is Career and Family: Women’s Century‑Long Journey toward Equity by Claudia Goldin. Other than promoting your book, what will you be doing next?…

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