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Title: Immigrants' Welfare Use and Opportunity for Contact with Co-Ethnics

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: In this article we examine the relationship between immigrants' welfare use and their social capital, using the 1990 census. We measure community social capital using contact with co-ethnics and co-ethnics' economic inactivity, and examine the use of AFDC and SSI in two subpopulations: single-mother families and elderly units. Major findings are that the effects of social capital differ between immigrant single-mother families and elderly units; the effects of social capital differ between the young-at-arrival elderly and the old-at-arrival elderly; and the process of AFDC use is similar for immigrants and for natives, whereas the process of SSI use is more complicated for immigrants than for natives.

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Authors: Hao, Lingxin; Kawano, Yukio

Periodical (Full): Demography

Issue: 3

Volume: 38

Pages: 375-389

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Poverty and Welfare, Race and Ethnicity

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