Article,
Urban Labor Markets, In-Migration, and Demographic Growth: Bremen, 1815-1914
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 30 (3): 437-473 (1999)
Abstract
Historical Abstracts
Changes in the economy and local labor markets of Bremen, Germany, affected the patterns of migration and the rate of assimilation of migrants into city life. As long as the economy remained preindustrial, traditional trade and small-scale handicraft production impeded migrants' economic opportunity. Newcomers who did stay tended to marry later in life than the natives and to have smaller families. The death rate for in-migrants was higher than for natives. In time large-scale industrialization diminished settlement restrictions and guild rules that had marginalized newcomers and kept them transient. Job opportunities increased, and a higher proportion of the migrants came from more distant locations. The morality rates of the newcomers were better than they were for the natives. R. deV. Brunkow
Notes: Based on residential registration data, marriage, birth, and death registers, and censuses; 41 notes
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