National Origin and Immigrant Welfare Recipiency
This paper explores national origin differences in the welfare recipiency of immigrants to the United States. We develop an economic model of immigration which generates implications about how welfare utilization should vary according to characteristics of the country of origin. The empirical analysis reveals that a few source country characteristics explain over two-thirds of the variance of welfare recipiency rates across national origin groups, and changes in the average source country characteristics of the foreign-born population between 1970 and 1980 can account for most of the rise in immigrant welfare use that occurred over the decade.
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1992-03
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Authors: | Borjas, George ; Trejo, Stephen J. |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) |
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