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Table 3 Annual 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

0.152

0.0363

−0.661**

0.367

−0.110

−0.178

−1.116***

0.394

  

(0.207)

(0.380)

(0.313)

(0.270)

(0.394)

(0.386)

(0.324)

(0.276)

 

Observations

2107

107,149

1043

41,154

2081

104,029

1029

39,219

 

Clusters

27

93

23

100

26

80

22

80

(2)

Prop. Southern

−0.243

0.329

−0.948**

0.475**

−0.774***

0.379

−1.369***

0.367

  

(0.298)

(0.261)

(0.411)

(0.220)

(0.280)

(0.245)

(0.507)

(0.313)

 

Observations

2107

104,209

1043

37,433

2081

101,339

1029

36,413

 

Clusters

27

87

23

72

26

75

22

62

(3)

Prop. Southern

  

−1.185***

0.162

  

−1.827***

0.301

    

(0.343)

(0.200)

  

(0.273)

(0.251)

 

Observations

  

1043

39,316

  

1029

38,078

 

Clusters

  

23

87

  

22

75

(4)

Prop. Southern

  

−1.245***

0.210**

  

−2.269***

0.104

    

(0.291)

(0.0993)

  

(0.546)

(0.225)

 

Observations

  

1043

36,473

  

1029

35,644

 

Clusters

  

23

67

  

22

59

  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