Table 3 OLS regressions of economic characteristics for immigrants to the USA, age 25 to 64, interaction of ethnicity with years in the USA

From: Transnational social mobility of minorities: a comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

		Household income	SEI	Wage
UK	Years in the USA	0.005**	0.02	0.004**
	Minority[Pakistanis]	−0.13	−10.456***	−1.288***
	Minority[Indians]	−0.235^†	2.783^†	0.277*
	Years in the USA*[Pakistanis]	0.001	1.879***	0.167**
	Years in the USA*[Indians]	0.023^†	−0.101	−0.012
	R ²	0.11	0.24	0.29
	N	21,654	21,654	15,058
France	Years in the USA	0.005*	−0.085*	−0.001
	Minority[Moroccans]	−0.64**	−14.683***	−1.02***
	Minority[Algerians]	−0.69**	−6.715***	− 0.975***
	Years in the USA*[Moroccans]	0.015*	0.642**	0.033**
	Years in the USA* [Algerians]	0.029**	0.304*	0.029**
	R ²	0.3	0.33	0.29
	N	4575	4575	4284
Germany	Years in the USA	0.009**	−0.062**	0.004*
	Minority[Turks]	0.043	1.466	−0.327
	Minority[Iranians]	−1.077***	−6.008**	−0.661**
	Years in the USA*[Turks]	0.017	−0.136	0.05*
	Years in the USA*[Iranians]	0.071***	0.277	0.032*
	R ²	0.12	0.33	0.32
	N	21,969	21,969	13,604
Iraq	Years in the USA	0.048**	0.184**	0.014**
	Minority[Kurds]	−1.029***	−6.143***	−0.198
	Years in the USA*[Kurds]	0.092**	0.401**	0.032^†
	R ²	0.12	0.48	0.24
	N	2753	2753.00	1571
Israel	Years in the USA	0.031**	−0.056	−0.002
	Minority[Arabs]	−0.317*	−6.982**	− 0.5**
	Years in the USA*[Arabs]	−0.006	0.158*	0.02**
	R ²	0.16	0.12	0.21
	N	3173	3173	2113

Sources: 1980, 1990, and 2000 US censuses together with 2005–2009 ACS surveys. Note: All calculations were made with weights. Wage and socioeconomic index are among those working. Additional covariates included in model but not shown here are as follows: age, age², sex, marital status, number of children, education, level of mastering English, citizenship, and year of survey
†p ˂ .10; *p ˂ .05; **p ˂ .01; ***p ˂ .001

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