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Table 20 Weekly wages and immigration

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

−0.301

0.164

−0.415

0.396**

−0.579

−0.259

−0.940**

0.120

  

(0.197)

(0.307)

(0.294)

(0.153)

(0.362)

(0.333)

(0.466)

(0.241)

 

Observations

2106

107,104

1029

40,751

2080

103,986

1015

38,839

 

Clusters

27

93

23

100

26

80

22

80

(2)

Prop. Southern

−0.455

0.324

−0.582

0.379**

−0.832***

0.0717

−0.919

0.0892

  

(0.323)

(0.256)

(0.422)

(0.181)

(0.282)

(0.286)

(0.592)

(0.234)

 

Observations

2106

104,167

1029

37,065

2080

101,299

1015

36,055

 

Clusters

27

87

23

72

26

75

22

62

(3)

Prop. Southern

  

−0.929***

0.164*

  

−1.221***

0.159

    

(0.257)

(0.0860)

  

(0.258)

(0.185)

 

Observations

  

1029

38,933

  

1015

26,290

 

Clusters

  

23

87

  

22

22

(4)

Prop. Southern

  

−1.129***

0.145*

  

−1.256***

−0.0631

    

(0.265)

(0.0767)

  

(0.425)

(0.177)

 

Observations

  

1029

36,114

  

1015

26,290

 

Clusters

  

23

67

  

22

22

  1. Notes: 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