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Table 4 Effects of Mexican immigrants on African-American male wages

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

Estimation procedure

OLS

OLS

IV

IV

IV

 

State fixed effects

State occupation fixed effects

Both instruments

Previous Mexican immigrant inflow instrument

Occupation TASK_FITTED instrument

Pooled sample

 Mexican occupation concentration

−0.033*** (0.002)

−0.012*** (0.005)

−0.191*** (0.091)

−0.076 (0.086)

−0.233*** (0.101)

 Overidentification J-test

  

1.9878

  

P value

  

0.1586

  

Less than High School education

 Mexican occupation concentration

−0.024*** (0.004)

−0.026 (0.019)

0.053 (0.096)

0.285 (0.235)

0.011 (0.009)

 Overidentification J-test

  

1.6932

  

P value

  

0.1932

  

High School dropouts

 Mexican occupation concentration

−0.016*** (0.002)

−0.008 (0.009)

−0.035 (0.044)

0.049 (0.067

−0.029 (0.065)

 Overidentification J-test

  

0.0343

  

P value

  

0.853

  

High School graduates

 Mexican occupation concentration

−0.030*** (0.002)

−0.009 (0.007)

−0.202*** (0.013)

0.075 (0.091)

−0.329*** (0.127)

 Overidentification J-test

  

9.2307

  

P value

  

0.0024

  

College educated and more

 Mexican occupation concentration

−0.071*** (0.016)

−0.014** (0.008)

1.543*** (0.670)

−0.720 (0.874)

1.049*** (0.305)

 Overidentification J-test

  

2.4077

  

P value

  

0.1207

  
  1. Note: Each coefficient is from a separate regression that controls for age, experience, experience squared, experience cubed, married, and state fixed effects, (college, post-graduate, in the pooled regressions). Dependent variable is the log of hourly wages of African-Americans. Robust standard errors in parentheses
  2. ***significantly different from zero at 99 percent confidence. **significantly different from zero at 95 percent confidence