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Table 3 ACS data means & standard errors

From: Minimum wages, earnings, and migration

  

All states

With changes

Without changes

Difference

 Immigrant counts

 

130,388

220,278

85,444

134,834***

  

(292,120)

(440,326)

(159,658)

 

 Minimum wage

 

5.44

6.02

5.15

0.87***

  

(0.60)

(0.75)

(0.00)

 

 State population

 

5.63

6.77

5.06

1.71**

 (in millions)

 

(6.30)

(8.85)

(4.43)

 

 Unemp. rate (%)

 

4.75

4.88

4.68

0.20

  

(1.15)

(1.27)

(1.08)

 

 Manufacturing inc.

 

43,220

47,648

41,006

6,642***

  

(8,559)

(10,323)

(6,495)

 

 GDP per cap.

 

35,476

42,747

31,840

10,907***

  

(12,386)

(18,550)

(4,379)

 

 Obs.

 

408

136

272

 
  1. Note–Standard errors are reported in parenthesis below means. **indicates difference between the states with and without changes are significance at 5% level and ***at the 1% level. Immigrant counts are the sum of ACS weighted observations, collapsed on state and year.
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