Research Article
Identifying Rates of Emigration in the United States Using Administrative Earnings Records
Table 4
Logit-hazard model regressions investigating the determinants of annual emigration, odds ratios.
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Source. author's calculations. Note. the dependent variable is the odds of the immigrant emigrating from the United States in any year. aDefined as average earnings over the past three years, in 2007 CPI-U-RS-adjusted dollars. bAnnual percentage change in US GDP per capita minus annual percentage change in GDP per capita in the country or region of origin. cDuration-interval-specific dummy variables for each observation. All estimates are statistically significant (with heteroskedastically-consistent standard errors) at the 1-percent level, except for the coefficient on age in columns (1) and (2) of Panel B and the GDP variable in Panel B, all of which are statistically significant at the 10 percent level. |