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Table 5 Effect of minimum wages on logged immigrant counts by year of arrival: Latin American immigrants

From: Minimum wages, earnings, and migration

   

Latin American immigrants

 
   

Years in the U.S.

 
  

yrs <2

2<yrs<4

4<yrs<6

7<yrs <9

yrs>10

 Minimum wage t−1

 

-.016

.038

.285*

-.017

.159*

  

(.388)

(.341)

(.160)

(.169)

(.091)

 GDP per capita t−1 (x 1,000)

 

.116

.155

.006

-.020

-.007

  

(.134)

(.120)

(.083)

(.089)

(.064)

 Unemployment t−1

 

.176

.241*

.169

-.139

.019

  

(.210)

(.132)

(.116)

(.152)

(.096)

 Manufacturing t−1 (x 1,000)

 

-.008

-.026

-.012

.026

-.022

  

(.057)

(.042)

(.048)

(.038)

(.025)

 State & year FE

 

 State trends

 

 R2

 

.88

.90

.92

.91

.95

 Obs.

 

325

347

340

319

377

  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. The sample excludes Mexican immigrants.