Linear regression coefficients for labor market outcomes on legal status
| Log of occupational education score | Log of hourly wages | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline model | Full model | Baseline model | Full model | |||||||
| b | SE | b | SE | b | SE | b | SE | |||
| Legal status | ||||||||||
| Unauthorized (reference) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |||
| Temporary worker (1=yes) | -.119***c | -0.034 | -.135***d | -0.032 | -.061c | -0.072 | .014b | -0.061 | ||
| Legal permanent resident (1=yes) | 0.011 | -0.032 | 0.002 | -0.03 | .187*** | -0.043 | .121*** | -0.033 | ||
| Human capital | ||||||||||
| Years of education | .015*** | -0.003 | .009* | -0.004 | ||||||
| Age at most recent U.S. trip | 0.004 | -0.005 | -0.001 | -0.007 | ||||||
| Centered age-squared | -0.00002 | -0.00007 | -0.00004 | -0.00008 | ||||||
| No. of prior U.S. trips | -.007* | -0.003 | .010*** | -0.003 | ||||||
| Duration of U.S. trip (in months) | 0.0002 | -0.001 | .004*** | -0.0003 | ||||||
| No English (1=yes) | -.222*** | -0.031 | -.167** | -0.056 | ||||||
| Limited English (1=yes) | -.180*** | -0.029 | -.135* | -0.055 | ||||||
| Strong English (reference) | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Social capital | ||||||||||
| Close family w/ U.S. exp. (1=yes) | -0.006 | -0.025 | -0.021 | -0.027 | ||||||
| Ext. family w/ U.S. exp. (1=yes) | -0.034 | -0.061 | -0.063 | -0.048 | ||||||
| Close family living in U.S. (1=yes) | -0.0002 | -0.026 | .054** | -0.017 | ||||||
| Ext. family living in U.S. (1=yes) | 0.004 | -0.051 | .109* | -0.044 | ||||||
| Joined U.S. social org.(s) (1=yes) | 0.018 | -0.028 | 0.01 | -0.034 | ||||||
| Job obtained by referral (1=yes) | 0.001 | -0.022 | -0.001 | -0.041 | ||||||
| U.S. trip controls | ||||||||||
| Interviewed in the U.S. (1=yes) | 0.052 | -0.031 | .143*** | -0.031 | ||||||
| Work-related controls | ||||||||||
| Worked in a border state (1=yes) | -0.01 | (.026) | -0.027 | -0.032 | ||||||
| Professional/Skilled job (reference) | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Service/Sales/Office job (1=yes) | — | — | -.122** | -0.036 | ||||||
| Unskilled manual job (1=yes) | — | — | -0.048 | -0.038 | ||||||
| Agricultural job (1=yes) | — | — | -.172*** | -0.034 | ||||||
| Intercept | -1.365** | -0.043 | -1.367*** | -0.173 | 2.490*** | -0.082 | 2.377*** | -0.268 | ||
| Adjusted R2 | 0.104 | 0.196 | 0.063 | 0.38 | ||||||
| N | 3,273 | 3,273 | 2,608 | 2,608 | ||||||
* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001
a Models are weighted and standard errors adjusted for 143 Mexican community clusters; all models include dummy variables for year of U.S. trip (1987–2011)
b Indicates temporary workers’ statistically significant difference from legal permanent residents (p <.10).
c Indicates temporary workers’ statistically significant difference from legal permanent residents (p <.01).
d Indicates temporary workers’ statistically significant difference from legal permanent residents (p <.001).
Source: Mexican Migration Project 143; sample was limited to non-U.S. citizen, male heads of households who worked during their most recent trip to the United States when above the age of 16, from 1987 to 2011.