Streets of Gold: Immigration and the American Dream over Two Centuries
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About this Event
Professor Leah Boustan, Professor of Economics at Princeton University, will speak on “Streets of Gold: Immigration and the American Dream over Two Centuries"
- April 9th at 18.30
- Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
All are welcome to attend however advance registration is recommended.
About the Lecture
This lecture will explore issues regarding immigration to the United States, addressing: who migrants were, how well they integrated into the United States economy, and their assimilation into United States culture.
Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she is also a faculty associate of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labour economics. Her book, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016) examines the effect of the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II. Recently her work has been on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This topic, which studies the economic and cultural integration of immigrant populations into the United States, is the subject of her new book currently in progress with Ran Abramitzky at Stanford University.
Event Organiser
Trinity College Dublin's Department of Economics, in the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, which is recognised internationally for its research expertise on issues of global societal and importance such as international development, international macroeconomics, energy economics, economic history, economic political economy, urban economics and industrial economics.
