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Table 1 Immigration by race and year

From: Immigration and wages: new evidence from the African American Great Migration

Prop. Southern (1940)

  

Entire labor force

0.079

0.101

 

(0.001)

(0.001)

Black labor force

0.632

0.661

 

(0.005)

(0.008)

White labor force

0.054

0.068

 

(0.001)

(0.001)

Prop. Black and Southern

  

Entire labor force

0.027

0.036

 

(0.000)

(0.001)

Prop. White and Southern

  

Entire labor force

0.052

0.065

 

(0.001)

(0.001)

% Recent Southern

1940 (5 years ago)

1950 (1 year ago)

Entire labor force

0.017

0.006

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

Black labor force

0.052

0.008

 

(0.003)

(0.001)

White labor force

0.015

0.006

 

(0.000)

(0.000)

  1. Notes: The labor force is defined as black and white men aged 16–64 who reported nonzero earnings in the year of enumeration. “Southern” means born in the South. Standard errors in parentheses