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Table 1 Summary statistics, socioeconomic characteristics

From: Mexican immigration, occupational clustering, and the local labor market adjustment of African-American workers

 

African-American

Mexican immigrant

Average years of labor market experience

21.95

Average years of schooling

11.63

6.73

Less than high school

0.19

0.53

High school

0.35

0.17

College graduate

0.34

0.11

Average age

37.54

34.17

Married

0.45

0.63

Do not speak English well or very well

0.48

Average number of weeks worked

38.49

40.47

Average number of hours worked a week

36.02

38.68

Average hourly wages (1999$)

16.83

13.17

Average log of hourly wages (1999$)

2.50

2.27

Wage ratio by 1-digit occupation grouping

  

Farming

 

0.82

Service

 

0.88

Production

 

0.86

Construction

 

0.96

Sales/office

 

1.05

Professional

 

1.26

  1. Note: Labor market experience is defined as age-years of schooling −6, following Chiswick (1997). Source: Author’s calculations based on the US Census 5 % 2000 PUMS data