Russian migrants to Russia: assimilation and local labor market effects

Table 10 The effect of immigration on the labor force participation of the local population

	(1)	(2)	(3)
	Probit	FE	IV
Percent of immigrants in the regional population	−0.002	0.010	−0.006*
	(0.003)	(0.016)	(0.003)
Male	0.076***	.	0.076***
	(0.008)	.	(0.009)
Age	0.035***	0.044***	0.044***
	(0.003)	(0.010)	(0.003)
Age squared	−0.000***	−0.001***	−0.001***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Years of education	0.015***	0.002	0.017***
	(0.002)	(0.002)	(0.002)
Married	−0.002	−0.032***	−0.003
	(0.007)	(0.007)	(0.007)
Urban area	0.018*	.	0.017
	(0.010)	.	(0.012)
F-test for the exclusion of the instrument			F(1, 30) = 27.5
Partial R2 for the excluded instrument			0.36
N	44839	44839	44839
pseudo R ²	0.096	0.035	0.072

Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered at the level of regions; *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01
Dep.var. – dummy equal to one if the person is unemployed (not employed and looking for a job). Year fixed effects included. Excluded instrumental variable in the IV regression – log distance from the center of a region to the border with fSU countries. Sample includes non-immigrants of age 25-55/60 (for men/women)
Source of data – RLMS, years 1995–2009