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Table 5 Relative size of Mexican labor supply in the African-American individual’s occupation and its impact on wages of African-Americans

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

  

Pooled sample

Less than high school

High school dropouts

High school

College

Mexican occupation concentration

Mean

1.19

1.97

1.66

1.34

0.75

 

IV—both instruments

−0.226***

0.104

−0.058***

−0.271***

1.160***

 

OLS

−0.392***

−0.472***

−0.027***

−0.040***

−0.053***

  1. Note: Each value is from a separate regression coefficient estimate of the effect of Mexican occupation concentration, multiplied by the corresponding reported mean value of that concentration measure. ***the effect is significantly different from zero at 99 percent confidence
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