Assessing the effect of the occupational crowding of immigrants on the real wages of African American workers

Review of Black Political Economy

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 37-46

  Stevans, Lonnie K ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040907189     PISSN: 00346446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12114-998-1003-y     Document Type: Article

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12. We have used this dataset in a previous publication utilizing an exhaustive set of demographic groups.
13. As mentioned previously, the one exception is a previous publication by this author in the journal Labour that utilized an exhaustive set of demographic groups. The reason the NLSY has not been utilized may in fact be due to the small number of non-U.S. citizens in the 1990 database. However, we did not find this to be a significant problem since from the entire sample that was used in our previous article, (6,258), approximately ten percent were non-U.S. citizens.
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23. The vector I includes the interactions terms between the crowding variables and the variables UNSKTLL and FORBORN.
24. The software package used was Eviews 3.0.
25. See Borjas and Tienda (1987), Council of Economic Advisors (1986), Greenwood and McDowell (1986), Papademetriou et al. (1989).