The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration

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. "8 The Social Dimensions of Immigration." The New Americans: Economic, Demographic, and Fiscal Effects of Immigration. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1997.

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Explanatory Variables	National	High Immigration States^a	California
$30,000-50,000	.011	-.007	-.041
	(.044)	(.081)	(.165)
$50,000-75,000	.052	.053	-.025
	(.049)	(.086)	(.168)
$75,000 or more	.021	.055	.136
	(.052)	(.090)	(.167)
Male	-.022	-.065	-.214^**
	(.023)	(.041)	(.080)
Black	-.128^**	-.110	-.422^*
	(.041)	(.072)	(.177)
Hispanic	-.246^**	-.271^**	-.282^*
	(.053)	(.070)	(.113)
Log (state per capita income)	.010	-.232
	(.172)	(.315)
Change in state per capita income (3 year change in log [PCI])	-2.384^**	.256
	(.684)	(4.379)
Percentage of the state's population that was foreign-born in the 1990 census	-.0045	-.0221^*
	(.0039)	(.0091)
Unemployment rate for state in month of survey	.003	.105
	(.014)	(.100)
Change in unemployment rate (over 2 years)	.020	.053
	(.020)	(.067)
Sample size	1734	594	185
Notes: ^* denotes significance at the 5% level, ^** at the 1% level. Numbers reported give the change in probability with a change in the continuous explanatory variables, evaluated at the mean. For dummy variables, they give the difference in probability from the omitted category, evaluated at the mean. ^a California, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.