Identifying Rates of Emigration in the United States Using Administrative Earnings Records

Table 2

Summary statistics of emigrants and nonemigrants, 1998.

	Emigration from the		Emigration from the US
	United States		Social Security system
	Nonemigrants	Emigrants	Nonemigrants	Emigrants
Average age (years)	37.8	37.9	37.8	35.4
Average earnings (dollars)	$27,696	$11,595	$27,622	$11,284
Percent men	56%	52%	56%	51%
Number of observations	166,734	4,012	167,565	3,181

Source. Author's calculations from merged Detailed Earnings Records, Numident, and Master Beneficiary Record data from the Social Security Administration.
Note. Universe limited to immigrants with positive earnings in 1998.