@techreport{NBERw6813,
 title = "Immigration and Welfare Magnets",
 author = "George J. Borjas",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "6813",
 year = "1998",
 month = "November",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w6813",
 abstract = {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.},
}