Table 5.
Fixed-effects predictors of Mexican immigrant dissimilarity from native whites and native blacks, 2000 and 2005–2009
| Dissimilarity from native whites |
Dissimilarity from native blacks |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
| Percent undocumented | .079 * (.040) |
-- -- |
.068 (.046) |
−.014 (.078) |
.000 (.079) |
-- -- |
−.052 (.090) |
.146 (.129) |
| Percent new arrivals | -- -- |
.040 (.039) |
.026 (.045) |
.055 (.050) |
-- -- |
.068 (.061) |
.087 (.071) |
.017 (.082) |
| New × Percent undocumented | -- -- |
-- -- |
-- -- |
.086 (.064) |
-- -- |
-- -- |
-- -- |
−.208 ** (.104) |
| Additional controls: | ||||||||
| Metro and year fixed effects | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mexican immigrant | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| Metropolitan structural | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | Yes |
| R-squared within | .077 | .061 | .082 | .209 | .000 | .010 | .013 | .209 |
| Intraclass correlation (rho) | .943 | .943 | .942 | .942 | .894 | .894 | .893 | .942 |
| Variance inflation factors | ||||||||
| Percent undocumented | -- | -- | 28.14 | 60.96 | -- | -- | 32.15 | 70.40 |
| Percent new arrivals | -- | -- | 25.49 | 14.59 | -- | -- | 26.75 | 37.41 |
| N of metro areas | 136 | 136 | 136 | 136 | 130 | 130 | 130 | 130 |
Notes:
*
p < .10;
**
p < .05;
***
p < .01;
standard errors in parentheses; includes metro areas with 1,000 total Mexican immigrants and 1,000 reference group members (white or blacks), and 100 or more unweighted adult Mexican immigrants in PUMS; continuous covariates are centered; all models include metropolitan and year fixed effects