Table 4.
Variable | Chinese | Indians | Vietnamese | Koreans | Mexicans | ||||||||||
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Destination Type | |||||||||||||||
Established (omitted) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | –– |
New | 2.10 | −1.26 | −4.94 | 4.48 | 2.09 | 2.56 | 5.77 | 5.32 | 4.59 | 4.97 | 4.39 | 5.48 | 1.82 | 1.21 | 3.30 |
Minor | 2.58 | 0.87 | −3.53 | 8.04 | 5.84 | 3.58 | 7.82 | 8.04 | 6.16 | 7.75 | 7.85 | 6.34 | 7.57 | 6.68 | 2.83 |
Group Characteristics | |||||||||||||||
Recent arrivals | 0.56 | 0.32 | 0.21 | 0.22 | 0.02 | −0.04 | 0.33 | 0.40 | 0.15 | 0.11 | |||||
English ability | −0.42 | −0.24 | −0.32 | −0.29 | −0.29 | −0.22 | −0.31 | −0.28 | −0.24 | −0.25 | |||||
White income paritya | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.17 | 0.10 | −0.02 | −0.08 | 0.19 | 0.14 | −0.18 | −0.10 | |||||
Region | |||||||||||||||
Northeast (omitted) | |||||||||||||||
Midwest | 2.45 | −2.45 | 3.21 | 2.81 | −5.11 | ||||||||||
West | −1.06 | −0.34 | −2.72 | −1.54 | −9.42 | ||||||||||
South | 4.37 | 0.76 | 2.06 | 5.24 | −8.47 | ||||||||||
Demographics | |||||||||||||||
Total population (ln) | 1.35 | 1.81 | 1.62 | 3.08 | 3.17 | ||||||||||
% immigrant | −0.25 | −0.22 | −0.13 | −0.12 | −0.24 | ||||||||||
Housing Supply | |||||||||||||||
New construction | −0.15 | −0.03 | −0.41 | −0.35 | −0.48 | ||||||||||
Economic Structure | |||||||||||||||
Low-skill service | 1.46 | 2.49 | 1.17 | 1.31 | 0.72 | ||||||||||
Manufacturing | 0.91 | 0.74 | 0.29 | 0.42 | −0.41 | ||||||||||
Military | −0.26 | 0.17 | −0.77 | −0.33 | −0.51 | ||||||||||
Intercept | 58.70 | 58.26 | 30.41 | 57.90 | 60.59 | 16.51 | 64.55 | 65.18 | 34.75 | 53.93 | 43.11 | 6.02 | 62.11 | 76.03 | 59.54 |
Number of metropolitan areas | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 87 | 79 | 79 | 79 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 93 | 93 | 93 |
Adjusted R2 | .01 | .38 | .63 | .18 | .37 | .73 | .12 | .17 | .46 | .12 | .27 | .47 | .13 | .25 | .66 |
Notes: Bolded coefficients are significant at p < .05. Includes only MSAs with at least 1,000 group members.
Refers to characteristics of foreign- and native-born members of ethnic origin group.