NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

National Origin and Immigrant Welfare Recipiency

George J. Borjas, Stephen J. Trejo

NBER Working Paper No. 4029*
Issued in March 1992
NBER Program(s):   LS

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.

*Published: Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 50, no. 3 (1993): 325-344.

You may purchase this paper on-line in .pdf format from SSRN.com ($5) for electronic delivery.

Information about Free Papers

You should expect a free download if you are a subscriber, a corporate associate of the NBER, a journalist, a site with your domain name in ".GOV", or a resident of nearly any developing country or transition economy.

If you usually get free papers at work/university but do not at home, you can either connect to your work VPN or proxy (if any) or elect to have a link to the paper emailed to your work email address below. The email address must be connected to a subscribing college, university, or other subscribing institution. Gmail and other free email addresses will not have access.

E-mail:

Machine-readable bibliographic record - MARC, RIS, BibTeX

 
Publications
Activities
Meetings
Data
People
About

National Bureau of Economic Research, 1050 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138; 617-868-3900; email: info@nber.org