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Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from State Laws Permitting Undocumented Immigrants to Pay In-state Tuition at State C...

Chin, Aimee - 2010

Ten states, beginning with Texas and California in 2001, have passed laws permitting undocumented students to pay the in-state tuition rate - rather than the more expensive out-of-state tuition rate - at public universities and colleges. We exploit state-time variation in the passage of the laws...

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The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State

Cohen, Alon - 2009

Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds … for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system …

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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration

Cohen, Alon - 2008

composition of immigrants under free migration is negative. The reason is that welfare state benefits attract unskilled migrants … generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of migrants is positive if migration is controlled by policy …. Being net contributors to the welfare state, skilled migrants can help finance a more generous welfare-state system; thus …

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Social Security Benefits of Immigrants and U.S. Born

Gustman, Alan L. - 1998

For each year of work under the Social Security System, immigrants realize higher benefits than U.S. born, even when their earnings are identical in all years the immigrant has been in the U.S.. Two features of the social security benefit calculation are responsible: the social security benefit...

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Immigration and the Welfare State : Immigrant Participation in Means- Tested Entitlement Programs

Borjas, George J. - 1995

This paper documents the extent to which immigrants participate in the many programs that make up the welfare state. The immigrant- native difference in the probability of receiving cash benefits is small, but the gap widens once other programs are included in the analysis: 21 percent of...

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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net

Bitler, Marianne - 2011

Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...

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Fear and the Safety Net : Evidence from Secure Communities

Alsan, Marcella - 2018

exploit changes in deportation fear due to the roll-out and intensity of Secure Communities (SC), an immigration enforcement … program that empowers the federal government to check the immigration status of anyone arrested by local police, leading to … participation could expose non-citizens in their network to immigration authorities. We find significant declines in SNAP and ACA …

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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis : Evidence From an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark

Agersnap, Ole - 2019

We study the effects of welfare generosity on international migration using reforms of immigrant welfare benefits in Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for natives or EU immigrants. The policy was later repealed...

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What Explains the Gap in Welfare Use among Immigrants and Natives?

Huang, Xiaoning - 2020

We investigate the gap in welfare use between immigrants and natives over a 24-year period using the Annual Social and Economic Supplement of the Current Population Survey from 1995-2018, spanning periods of economic recessions and recoveries, changes in welfare policy regimes, and policies...

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Welfare Reform, Labor Supply, and Health Insurance in the Immigrant Population

Borjas, George J. - 2003

Although the 1996 welfare reform legislation limited the eligibility of immigrant households to receive assistance, many states chose to protect their immigrant populations by offering state-funded aid to these groups. I exploit these changes in eligibility rules to examine the link between the...

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