Minimum wages, earnings, and migration

Table 8 Effect of logged immigration on the probability of a minimum wage increase

Note–Binary dependent variable is whether or not a state changed its minimum wage. Standard errors are reported in parenthesis below the coefficients. *indicates significance at the 10% level, **at 5% and ***at the 1% level. Standard errors are clustered by state. The lesseducated immigrant sample consists of all person ages 16-65 who have a high school degree or less, are foreign born, and non-citizens. The labor force sample is equivalent to the final sample from the mobility analysis. Specifically, they are the less-educated sample with additional restrictions to ensure that immigrants are in the labor force, not self-employed, not in unpaid work, and not working in the agricultural sector. Creating leads in immigration causes a reduction in the number of observations.