Immigrant networks and the take-up of disability programs: evidence from U.S. census data
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Center for Retirement Research working paper
- Contributor(s):
- Furtado, Delia. Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos. Center for Retirement Research at Boston College.
- Publication:
- Chestnut Hill, MA : Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, c2012
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Censuses Disability Evaluation Disabled Persons Emigrants and Immigrants -- psychology Social Environment Social Security -- economics Social Values -- ethnology Adult Communication Culture Emigrants and Immigrants -- statistics & numerical data Employment Ethnic Groups Ethnic Groups -- psychology Ethnic Groups -- statistics & numerical data Income Insurance, Disability Middle Aged Population Groups -- ethnology Population Groups -- statistics & numerical data Humans United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- 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 amid 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.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101595896 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101595896