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Table 7 Effect of minimum wages on logged immigrant counts by year of arrival: Alternate arrival bin lengths

From: Minimum wages, earnings, and migration

   

Years in the U.S.

 
  

1 <yrs <5

1<yrs <6

2<yrs <5

2 <yrs <6

3<yrs<6

 Minimum wage t−1 (full sample)

 

.178**

.110**

.215***

.141***

.110**

  

(.085)

(.042)

(.079)

(.043)

(.049)

 Minimum wage t−1 (Latin Am. sample)

 

.086

.189

.068

.199

.158

  

(.344)

(.301)

(.388)

(.315)

(.282)

 Minimum wage t−1 (Mexican sample)

 

.179

.306

.187

.292

.197

  

(.188)

(.268)

(.161)

(.223)

(.227)

 Economic controls

 

 State & year FE

 

 State trends

 

 Obs. in full sample

 

407

407

406

406

403

 Obs. in Latino sample

 

363

368

357

362

356

 Obs. in Mexican sample

 

372

374

370

372

369

  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.