National Origin and Immigrant Welfare Recipiency / George J. Borjas, Stephen J. Trejo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borjas, George J.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Trejo, Stephen J.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w4029.

NBER working paper series no. w4029

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1992.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

March 1992.