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Table 4 Effect of minimum wages on logged immigrant counts by year of arrival: All immigrants

From: Minimum wages, earnings, and migration

   

All immigrants

 
   

Years in the U.S.

 
  

yrs<2

2<yrs<4

4<yrs<6

7< yrs<9

yrs>10

 Minimum wage t−1

 

.165

.260**

.056

-.007

-.053

  

(.142)

(.108)

(.092)

(.106)

(.060)

 GDP per capita t−1 (x 1,000)

 

.060

.100*

.074

-.023

.017

  

(.063)

(.055)

(.046)

(.067)

(.029)

 Unemployment t−1

 

.048

.120*

.028

.093

.035

  

(.079)

(.071)

(.066)

(.086)

(.038)

 Manufacturing t−1 (x 1,000)

 

-.001

.009

-.013

.026

.000

  

(.021)

(.019)

(.013)

(.020)

(.007)

 State & year FE

 

 State trends

 

 R2

 

.94

.96

.97

.96

.99

 Obs.

 

404

405

401

402

408

  1. Note–Standard errors are reported in parenthesis below the coefficients.* indicates significance at the 10% level,**at 5% level and ***at the 1% level. Standard errors are clustered by state. Sample sizes vary slightly because we do not observe migrants in all state-year cells when the sample is stratified by arrival intervals.