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National Origin and Immigrant Welfare Recipiency

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George J. Borjas
Stephen J. Trejo

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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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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 4029.

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Date of creation: Mar 1992
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Publication status: published as Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 50, no. 3 (1993): 325-344.
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  1. Trejo, Stephen J, 1992. "Immigrant Welfare Recipiency: Recent Trends and Future Implications," Contemporary Economic Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 10(2), pages 44-53, April.
  2. George J. Borjas, 1988. "Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants," NBER Working Papers 2248, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. Francine D. Blau, 1984. "The use of transfer payments by immigrants," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, ILR Review, ILR School, Cornell University, vol. 37(2), pages 222-239, January.
  4. George J. Borjas & Stephen J. Trejo, 1991. "Immigrant Participation in the Welfare System," NBER Working Papers 3423, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Guy Lacroix & Gino Santarossa & Pierre Gagné, 2003. "Une analyse de la dynamique de la dépendance à l'assistance-emploi des populations natives et immigrantes québécoises," Cahiers de recherche 0342, CIRPEE. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Fertig, Michael & Schmidt, Christoph M, 2001. "First- and Second-Generation Migrants in Germany - What Do We Know and What Do People Think," CEPR Discussion Papers 2803, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  3. George J. Borjas, 1998. "Immigration and Welfare Magnets," NBER Working Papers 6813, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Enrico MORETTI & Jeffrey M. PERLOFF, 1996. "Use Of Public Assistance And Private Aid By Legal And Unauthorized Immigrants Who Work In Agriculture," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series 806, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley. [Downloadable!]
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  6. Bernt Bratsberg & Oddbjørn Raaum & Knut Røed, 2007. "When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State," IZA Discussion Papers 2872, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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  8. Riphahn, Regina, 1999. "Immigrant Participation in Social Assistance Programs: Evidence from German Guestworkers," CEPR Discussion Papers 2318, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  11. Wei-Yin Hu, 1996. "Elderly Immigrants on Welfare," UCLA Economics Working Papers 750, UCLA Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  12. George J. Borjas, 2000. "Immigration and the Food Stamp Program," JCPR Working Papers 121, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. [Downloadable!]
  13. Aleksynska, Mariya, 2007. "Civic Participation of Immigrants: Culture Transmission and Assimilation," MPRA Paper 4594, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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