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Immigrant Artists: Enrichment or Displacement?

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  • Karol Jan Borowiecki

    (University of Southern Denmark)

  • Kathryn Graddy

    (Brandeis University)

Abstract

In order to investigate the role of immigrant artists on the development of artistic clusters in U.S. cities, we use the US Census and American Community Survey, collected every 10 years since 1850. We identify artists and art teachers, authors, musicians and music teachers, actors and actresses, architects, and journalists, their geographical location and their status as a native or an immigrant. We look at the relative growth rate of the immigrant population in these occupations over a ten year period and how it affects the relative growth rate of native-born individuals in these artistic occupations. We find that cities that experienced immigrant artistic inflows also see a greater inflow of native artists.

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  • Karol Jan Borowiecki & Kathryn Graddy, 2018. "Immigrant Artists: Enrichment or Displacement?," Working Papers 122, Brandeis University, Department of Economics and International Business School.
    • Handle: RePEc:brd:wpaper:122
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    1. Marco Palomeque & Juan de-Lucio, 2024. "The Soundtrack of a Crisis: More Positive Music Preferences During Economic and Social Adversity," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 25(5), pages 1-24, June.
    2. Borowiecki, Karol Jan & Dahl, Christian Møller, 2021. "What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C).
    3. Winichakul, K. Pun & Zhang, Ning, 2024. "Enter stage left: Immigration and the American arts," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 225(C), pages 329-347.
    4. Philipp Koch & Viktor Stojkoski & César A. Hidalgo, 2024. "Augmenting the availability of historical GDP per capita estimates through machine learning," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 121(39), pages 2402060121-, September.
    5. Roberto Cellini & Tiziana Cuccia & Domenico Lisi, 2020. "Spatial dependence in museum services: an analysis of the Italian case," Journal of Cultural Economics, Springer;The Association for Cultural Economics International, vol. 44(4), pages 535-562, December.

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    JEL classification:

    • J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
    • J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
    • N3 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy
    • N9 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History
    • Z1 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics

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