Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate into or out of Welfare?

Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare?

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set for the years 1990 to 1996. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that differences cannot be explained by observable characteristics. Welfare participation decreases with time spent in Sweden. Refugees assimilate out-of welfare at a fast...

Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK

Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004. The analysis focuses in particular on the types of benef...

Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility

Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation (PRWORA), which denied the use of most means-tested assistance to noncitizens and lowered immigrant welfare dramatically. While Federal legislation imposed stri...

Fertility and Welfare Participation

Despite the attention that the fertility of welfare recipients has received recently, surprisingly little is known about it. This paper answers some basic questions about the phenomenon of welfare births. Among the findings from the March 1987 Current Population Survey are that 13.4 percent of all births are into the 7.3 percent of families receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFD...