Table 4.

Group-specific regressions of immigrant group dissimilarity from native whites

Variable	Chinese			Indians			Vietnamese			Koreans			Mexicans
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.

^aRefers to characteristics of foreign- and native-born members of ethnic origin group.