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Immigration and Welfare Magnets / George J. Borjas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Borjas, George J.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w6813.
- NBER working paper series no. w6813
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public welfare.
- Welfare recipients.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1998.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998.
- Summary:
- This paper investigates if the location choices made by immigrants when they arrive in the United States are influenced by the interstate dispersion in welfare benefits. Income-maximizing behavior implies that foreign-born welfare recipients unlike their native-born counterparts, may be clustered in the states that offer the highest benefits. The empirical analysis indicates that immigrant welfare recipients are indeed more heavily clustered in high-benefit states than the immigrants who do not receive welfare, or than natives. As a result, the welfare participation rate of immigrants is much more sensitive to changes in welfare benefits than that of natives.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 1998.
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