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Immigrant Benefit Receipt: Sensitivity to the Choice of Survey years and Model Specification

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  • Crossley, T.F.
  • McDonald, J.T.
  • Worswick, C.

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Receipt of unemployment insurance by immigrant men and social assistance by immigrant families are analysed using thirteen surveys from Canada. Estimates from a cohort fixed effects model are found to be sensitive to the choice of survey years. This is due to the mis-specification of the fixed effects model which is rejected when tested against a model allowing for separate year-since-migration effects by arrival cohort. The estimates from the more general model provide little evidence of higher receipt of these benefits, ceteris paribus, for more recent cohorts or that immigrants assimilate toward greater receipt of these benefits.

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  • Crossley, T.F. & McDonald, J.T. & Worswick, C., 1999. "Immigrant Benefit Receipt: Sensitivity to the Choice of Survey years and Model Specification," ANU Working Papers in Economics and Econometrics 1999-370, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics.
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    Keywords

    UNEMPLOYMENT ; PUBLIC EXPENDITURES ; IMMIGRANTS;
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    JEL classification:

    • H53 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration

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