Immigrant Benefit Receipt Revisited: Sensitivity to the Choice of Survey Years and Model Specification

Thomas Crossley (), James McDonald () and Christopher Worswick

Journal of Human Resources, 2001, vol. 36, issue 2, 379-397

Abstract: Baker and Benjamin (1995) analyse the receipt of unemployment insurance by immigrant men using two years of the Canadian Survey of Consumer Finances. This study replicates their research on 13 of the annual surveys. Estimates are found to be sensitive to the choice of survey years. Furthermore, the standard fixed effects model of assimilation is rejected when tested against a model that allows for separate year-since-migration effects by arrival cohort. Estimates from the more general model do not indicate higher incidence of benefit receipt, ceteris paribus, among more recent cohorts or that immigrants assimilate toward greater receipt of benefits.

Date: 2001
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (13)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3069664
A subscription is required to access pdf files. Pay per article is available.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:36:y:2001:i:2:p:379-397

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Human Resources from University of Wisconsin Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().