Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62380 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6649
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants residing amidst a large number of co-ethnics are more likely to receive disability payments when their ethnic groups have higher take-up rates. Although this pattern can be partially explained by cross-group differences in satisfying the work history or income and asset requirements of the disability programs, we also find that social norms and, to a lesser extent, information sharing play important roles.
Subjects: 
social security disability insurance
supplementary security income
networks
immigrants
JEL: 
C31
H55
I18
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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