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dc.contributor.authorLofstrom, Magnusen
dc.contributor.authorBean, Frank D.en
dc.date.accessioned2009-01-28T16:20:22Z-
dc.date.available2009-01-28T16:20:22Z-
dc.date.issued2001-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/21206-
dc.description.abstractConsiderable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extentchanges in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation inwelfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of thechanges. Some analysts have argued that such so-called chilling effects have loweredimmigrant participation, and others have argued that this is true only in California. This paperanalyzes the role of local labor market conditions in explaining declines in the welfareparticipation trends of immigrants and reductions in the nativity participation gap for the period1994 to 1999. The data, extracted from the March Current Population Survey, indicate thatimmigrants? participation in welfare declined more rapidly than natives? during the latter half ofthe decade. Our results show that variation in the unemployment and employment rates acrossMSAs and states explain the observed relative post-welfare reform decrease among immigrants,with immigrant welfare utilization being sensitive to changes in both employment andunemployment rates. The inclusion of state fixed effects in probability models suggests that therelative decline among immigrants is not due to unobservable heterogeneity across states, butrather to differences in local labor market conditions. The policy implications of the findings arediscussed.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x347en
dc.subject.jelI30en
dc.subject.jelJ15en
dc.subject.jelJ61en
dc.subject.jelI38en
dc.subject.jelH53en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordImmigrant welfareen
dc.subject.keywordwelfare reformen
dc.subject.keywordlabor market conditionsen
dc.subject.stwSozialreformen
dc.subject.stwMigrantenen
dc.subject.stwSozialhilfeempfängeren
dc.subject.stwRegionale Arbeitslosigkeiten
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwUSAen
dc.subject.stwKalifornienen
dc.titleLabor Market Conditions and Post-Reform Declines in Welfare Receipt Among Immigrants-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn844106097en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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