Table 22 Changes in South-North migration

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

		Proportional change		Proportional change
		(1940–1960)		(1940–1970)
Education group	Experience group	White	Black	White	Black
Less than 5th grade	6–10	0.10	−0.50	−0.15	−1.00
	11–15	−0.02	0.20	−0.48	−0.75
	16–20	0.58	0.24	−0.19	−0.65
	21–25	0.58	0.11	−0.23	−0.71
	26–30	0.90	0.08	0.33	−0.69
	31–35	0.25	0.14	0.30	−0.58
	36–40	0.98	0.21	1.21	−0.40
5th–8th grade	1–5	2.14	3.05	2.63	5.69
	6–10	0.04	0.13	−0.39	−0.60
	11–15	0.10	0.01	−0.37	−0.61
	16–20	0.25	0.09	−0.34	−0.65
	21–25	0.09	0.20	−0.24	−0.47
	26–30	0.15	0.19	−0.02	−0.37
	31–35	0.62	0.81	0.63	0.33
	36–40	0.83	1.19	0.72	0.78
Some high school	1–5	3.06	1.66	4.62	2.33
	6–10	0.83	1.92	0.70	1.36
	11–15	0.63	1.82	0.46	1.59
	16–20	0.88	2.72	0.59	2.41
	21–25	1.50	3.60	1.22	3.11
	26–30	2.11	4.79	2.58	6.97
	31–35	2.02	4.49	3.60	9.39
	36–40	3.87	5.48	5.94	11.88
High school degree	1–5	1.95	3.04	2.56	4.38
	6–10	1.18	2.29	2.22	4.47
	11–15	1.09	4.62	1.87	11.38
	16–20	1.92	4.34	3.09	9.02
	21–25	3.32	5.32	4.21	6.46
	26–30	3.28	6.31	5.26	16.27
	31–35	2.63	8.73	6.42	14.33
	36–40	2.75	4.20	8.65	8.27
Greater than high school	1–5	1.72	2.64	5.74	6.52
	6–10	1.94	3.54	3.81	8.23
	11–15	1.84	4.60	3.00	8.50
	16–20	2.24	2.71	3.50	6.20
	21–25	1.78	2.34	3.12	4.29
	26–30	1.31	2.19	4.74	4.89
	31–35	1.63	1.76	4.36	4.55
	36–40	1.90	2.35	5.78	4.18

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