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Table 6 Annual wages and immigration: state-specific IV estimates

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

  

Overall

 

By race

  

1940

1950

 

1940

1950

Specification

 

Black

White

Black

White

 

Black

White

Black

White

(1)

Prop. Southern

−0.308

−0.448

−1.134***

0.269

Prop. Southern black

−2.212*

0.584

−2.443**

1.155**

  

(0.494)

(0.394)

(0.307)

(0.288)

 

(1.160)

(0.834)

(1.112)

(0.503)

 

Observations

2081

104,029

1029

39,219

Prop. Southern white

0.694

−0.841***

−0.347

−0.303**

 

Clusters

26

80

22

80

 

(0.765)

(0.291)

(0.545)

(0.149)

      

Observations

2081

104,029

1029

39,219

      

Clusters

26

80

22

80

(2)

Prop. Southern

−0.804***

0.121

−1.348***

0.325

Prop. Southern black

−4.391***

1.518***

−2.803*

1.091**

  

(0.307)

(0.259)

(0.365)

(0.308)

 

(1.325)

(0.419)

(1.522)

(0.460)

 

Observations

2081

101,339

1029

36,413

Prop. Southern white

0.809*

−0.644***

−0.640

−0.195

 

Clusters

26

75

22

62

 

(0.486)

(0.219)

(0.444)

(0.276)

      

Observations

2081

101,339

1029

36,413

      

Clusters

26

75

22

62

(3)

Prop. Southern

  

−1.570***

0.260

Prop. Southern black

  

−2.057***

1.067***

    

(0.233)

(0.198)

   

(0.702)

(0.309)

 

Observations

  

1 029

38,078

Prop. Southern white

  

−1.300***

−0.240*

 

Clusters

  

22

75

   

(0.446)

(0.125)

      

Observations

  

1029

38,078

      

Clusters

  

22

75

(4)

Prop. Southern

  

−1.650***

0.244

Prop. Southern black

  

−4.907***

0.370

    

(0.331)

(0.198)

   

(1.335)

(0.461)

 

Observations

  

1029

35,644

Prop. Southern white

  

0.0116

0.160

 

Clusters

  

22

59

   

(0.471)

(0.195)

      

Observations

  

1029

35,644

      

Clusters

  

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