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Table 12 Elasticity estimates (immigrant-native)

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

Sample

 

1940–1960

1940–1970

Whites

\(-\sigma _{i}^{-1}\)

−0.05

−0.05

  

(0.06)

(0.04)

 

N

117

156

Blacks

\(-\sigma _{i}^{-1}\)

0.05

0.02

  

(0.08)

(0.05)

 

N

117

156

Pooled

\(-\sigma _{i}^{-1}\)

−0.04

−0.04

  

(0.06)

(0.04)

 

N

234

311

  1. Notes: Except where noted, wages and labor supplies are measured using all Northern labor. Standard errors for the estimates of σ i , σ r , and σ x are clustered by education-experience group (or race-education-experience groups for models that pool both races); standard errors for σ e are heteroskedasticity-robust. All regressions are weighted by the number of observations used to construct the dependent variable
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