TY  - JOUR
AU  - Borjas,George J.
AU  - Hilton,Lynette
TI  - Immigration and the Welfare State: Immigrant Participation in Means-    Tested Entitlement Programs
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5372
PY  - 1995
Y2  - December 1995
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5372
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5372.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
George J. Borjas
Harvard Kennedy School
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Tel: 617/495-1393
Fax: 617/495-9532
E-Mail: gborjas@harvard.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 1996-05-01
AB  - This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state.  The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of immigrant households receive some type of assistance, as compared to only 14 percent of native households.  The types of benefits received by earlier immigrants influence the types of benefits received by newly arrived immigrants.  Hence there might be ethnic networks which transmit information about the availability of particular benefits to new immigrants.
ER  -