This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state … 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 …

This paper studies long-term trends in the labor market performance of immigrants in the United States, using the 1960 …-2000 PUMS and 1994-2009 CPS. While there was a continuous decline in the earnings of new immigrants 1960-1990, the trend … policy toward high-skill workers matched with jobs, an increase in the earnings of immigrants from Mexico, and a decline in …

immigrants in the United States. Our theoretical framework, based on the assumption that family migration decisions maximize …