Why Do Asian Americans Have the Worst Long-Term Unemployment? There are 3 possible explanations. First, about a third of all Asian Americans live in California, which has disproportionately high joblessness, both short term & long-term. Second, there's immigrant bias: Perhaps employers prefer to hire U.S.-born workers. Third, there's racial bias. If Asians had the same long-term unemployment as their equally-educated white peers, their long-term jobless rate would be 8.1 percentage points lower.
