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Table 9 Native outmigration and recent immigration, same metro areas

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

−0.0468

1.214***

−0.219

0.572

Prop. Southern black

1.506

4.393

1.854

−2.366

  

(0.267)

(0.394)

(0.277)

(0.804)

 

(3.607)

(3.363)

(5.019)

(3.320)

 

Observations

1996

68,564

940

24,704

Prop. Southern white

−0.593

0.493*

−1.167

2.173***

 

Clusters

26

26

20

20

 

(1.011)

(0.299)

(1.993)

(0.824)

      

Observations

1996

68,564

940

24,704

      

Clusters

26

26

20

20

(2)

Prop. Southern

0.223

0.768***

0.295

1.355

Prop. Southern black

7.386

6.803

2.627

−0.254

  

(0.609)

(0.226)

(2.028)

(1.013)

 

(6.773)

(5.551)

(4.570)

(3.497)

 

Observations

1996

68,564

940

24,704

Prop. Southern white

−1.697

−0.597

−1.193

1.995***

 

Clusters

26

26

20

20

 

(1.128)

(1.038)

(1.562)

(0.653)

      

Observations

1996

68,564

940

24,704

      

Clusters

26

26

20

20

  1. Notes: Instrumental variables estimates. 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. 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