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Table 17 Southern immigration and metro-average annual wages

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

  

OLS

IV

  

1940

1950

1940

1950

Specification

 

Black

White

Black

White

Black

White

Black

White

(1)

Prop. Southern

0.265

0.449**

−0.485*

0.450***

−0.0345

0.294

−0.782***

0.483***

  

(0.19)

(0.19)

(0.25)

(0.15)

(0.37)

(0.24)

(0.24)

(0.18)

 

Observations

27

93

23

100

26

80

22

80

(2)

Prop. Southern

0.0215

0.369**

−0.765

0.449***

−0.837***

0.286

−0.796*

0.454**

  

(0.45)

(0.15)

(0.48)

(0.15)

(0.27)

(0.20)

(0.43)

(0.23)

 

Observations

27

87

23

72

26

75

22

62

(3)

Prop. Southern

  

−0.977***

0.172

  

−1.488***

0.251

    

(0.33)

(0.13)

  

(0.35)

(0.22)

 

Observations

  

23

87

  

22

75

(4)

Prop. Southern

  

−1.243**

0.251**

  

−1.783***

0.294

    

(0.51)

(0.10)

  

(0.46)

(0.27)

 

Observations

  

23

67

  

22

59

  1. Notes: Dependent variable is metro-average residuals from a regression of log annual wages on indicators for educational attainment and age. 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. Robust standard errors reported in parentheses
  2. “***”, “**”, and “*” denote significance at the 1, 5, and 10 % levels, respectively