Table 7 Full 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
Citizenship [not a citizen]	−0.047***	−0.405*	− 0.050***
Level of speaking English	0.085***	2.836***	0.099***
Number of children	−0.016**	−0.026	− 0.008
Marital status [Married]	−0.056***	0.495**	−0.019
Age	0.123***	0.005	0.109***
Age²	−0.001***	−0.001	− 0.001***
Sex [Women]	−0.971***	−2.755***	− 0.876***
Education [BA+]	−0.542***	15.217***	0.527***
Year of survey^a [1990]	0.055***	0.025	0.037**
Year of survey^a [2000]	0.178***	0.842***	0.141***
Year of survey^a [2001–2009]	0.157***	0.629**	0.142***
Minority / Majority [Minority]	−0.584***	−8.037***	−0.571***
Years in the USA^b [6–10]	0.070***	−0.947***	0.051*
Years in the USA^b [11–15]	0.057*	−0.698*	0.024
Years in the USA^b [16–20]	0.018	−1.263***	−0.027
Years in the USA^b [25+]	0.076**	−1.351***	0.037
[Minorities]*Years in the USA [6–10]	0.272**	4.008**	0.196
[Minorities]*Years in the USA [11–15]	0.340***	4.417**	0.365***
[Minorities]*Years in the USA [16–20]	0.378***	5.010**	0.392***
[Minorities]*Years in the USA [25+]	0.534***	7.351***	0.547***
Country^c [France]	0.093***	0.809*	0.044^†
Country^c [Germany]	0.006	0.981***	0.017
Country^c [Iraq]	−0.519***	−3.619***	−0.483***
Country^c [Israel]	−0.027	3.191***	−0.003
Intercept	7.802***	26.167***	7.540***
N	37,338	36,381	32,956
R ²	0.295	0.32	0.301

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
^aThe reference category of “year of survey” is 1980 year of survey
^bThe reference category of “years in the USA” is 0–5 years in the USA
^cThe reference category of “country” is the UK
†p ˂ .10; *p ˂ .05; **p ˂ .01; ***p ˂ .001

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