, which ended a quota system that favored immigrants from Europe. Most of the Arab immigrants who arrived after 1945 have been Muslims with even more education than their predecessors. Twenty metropolitan areas are home to 48 percent of all Arab-Americans, and the third largest Arab-American population in the United States is found in the Los Angeles-Long Beach area, where 6.5 percent of all Arab-Americans live. Among Arab-Americans, this population also ranks fourth in median household income (El-Badry, 1994, 24-25).
One-third of all Arab-Americans live in California, New York, and Michigan (El-Badry, 1994, 25). Sixty percent work as executives, professionals, salespeople, administrative support, or service personnel, compared with 66 percent for the general population. They are more likely to work in sales and less likely to work in most other broad occupational categories, such as administrative support and service jobs. They are also more likely to be entrepreneurs and to be self-employed, at 12 percent for th
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