Russian migrants to Russia: assimilation and local labor market effects

Table 8 The effect of immigration on the wages of the local population

	(1)	(2)	(3)
	OLS	FE	IV
Percent of immigrants in the regional population	−0.037	0.040	−0.014
	(0.027)	(0.052)	(0.041)
Male	0.305***	.	0.305***
	(0.021)	.	(0.021)
Age	0.036***	0.072**	0.036***
	(0.007)	(0.027)	(0.006)
Age squared	−0.000***	−0.001***	−0.000***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Years of education	0.065***	0.008*	0.065***
	(0.005)	(0.004)	(0.005)
Married	0.049**	0.020	0.050**
	(0.024)	(0.020)	(0.024)
Urban area	0.358***	.	0.384***
	(0.070)	.	(0.066)
Constant	−1.854***	−1.176	−1.080***
	(0.171)	(1.122)	(0.191)
F-test for the exclusion of the instrument			F(1, 30) = 24.4
Partial R2 for the excluded instrument			0.34
N	28013	28013	28013
adj. R ²	0.29	0.27	0.29

Robust standard errors in parentheses, clustered at the level of regions; *p < 0.10, **p < 0.05, ***p < 0.01
Dep.var. – real hourly wage adjusted for the regional price level. 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