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Table 10 Annual wages and immigration, including Southern workers

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

  

Overall

 

By race

  

1940

1950

 

1940

1950

Specification

 

Black

White

Black

White

 

Black

White

Black

White

(1)

Prop. Southern

−0.0649

−0.172

−0.567*

0.302

Prop. Southern black

−0.653

0.788

−1.046

0.846*

  

(0.319)

(0.364)

(0.306)

(0.257)

 

(0.879)

(0.809)

(0.963)

(0.511)

 

Observations

6849

109,298

3501

41,794

Prop. Southern white

0.274

−0.751***

−0.235

−0.314*

 

Clusters

47

80

33

80

 

(0.490)

(0.286)

(0.447)

(0.162)

      

Observations

6849

109,298

3501

41,794

      

Clusters

47

80

33

80

(2)

Prop. Southern

−0.441*

0.361

−0.469*

0.293

Prop. Southern black

−3.777***

1.780***

−0.652

0.788

  

(0.228)

(0.245)

(0.285)

(0.307)

 

(1.076)

(0.370)

(0.806)

(0.511)

 

Observations

6849

106,507

3501

38,906

Prop. Southern white

0.895***

−0.612***

−0.326

−0.165

 

Clusters

47

75

33

62

 

(0.338)

(0.195)

(0.352)

(0.272)

      

Observations

6849

106,507

3501

38,906

      

Clusters

47

75

33

62

(3)

Prop. Southern

  

−0.880*

0.183

Prop. Southern black

  

−0.891

0.649*

    

(0.466)

(0.268)

   

(0.645)

(0.353)

 

Observations

  

3488

40,602

Prop. Southern white

  

−0.874**

−0.315**

 

Clusters

  

32

75

   

(0.442)

(0.151)

      

Observations

  

3488

40,602

      

Clusters

  

32

75

(4)

Prop. Southern

  

−0.620**

0.0207

Prop. Southern black

  

−1.731**

−0.0630

    

(0.278)

(0.213)

   

(0.673)

(0.445)

 

Observations

  

3488

38,104

Prop. Southern white

  

0.0790

0.0982

 

Clusters

  

32

59

   

(0.299)

(0.224)

      

Observations

  

3488

38,104

      

Clusters

  

32

59

  1. Notes: Instrumental variables estimates. All specifications include indicators for age and education; specification (2) includes white and black metro-level percent employed in manufacturing, percent farming, and average years of education; specification (3) includes the metro level average dependent variable, lagged one decade; specification (4) includes metro-level average variables and a lagged mean dependent variable. Regressions weighted by the number of observations used to calculate metro-level covariates. Standard errors, clustered by metro area, reported in parentheses
  2. “***”, “**”, and “*” denote significance at the 1, 5, and 10 % levels, respectively