TY - JOUR
T1 - Source-country social programs and the age composition of legal US immigrants
AU - Greenwood, Michael J.
AU - McDowell, John M.
AU - Wierman, Matt
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Institute on Aging, Grant AG 11850. We are grateful to Fred Ziel for assistance with data and to Donald Waldman for writing the econometric software that we used. Jacques Poot and participants at seminars at Australian National University, Kansas State University, University of Oregon, University of Wyoming, and Victoria University of Wellington made a number of helpful comments for which we are grateful. We are also grateful for the comments of a referee.
PY - 2003/3/1
Y1 - 2003/3/1
N2 - In this study we use the concept of the marginal migrant to develop a theoretical model of the age composition of US immigration. Two age classes of immigrants are distinguished, 20-34 and 50 and over, along with sex and entry class (numerically restricted, numerically exempt). Annual data (1972-1991) for 109 source countries are pooled, and the Hausman-Taylor instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate regressions that satisfy adding-up restrictions. Along with measures of differential economic opportunities, migration costs, and US institutional controls, we incorporate into the analysis a unique set of variables relating to social programs in source countries. Such programs prove to be significant determinants of the age composition of US immigrants.
AB - In this study we use the concept of the marginal migrant to develop a theoretical model of the age composition of US immigration. Two age classes of immigrants are distinguished, 20-34 and 50 and over, along with sex and entry class (numerically restricted, numerically exempt). Annual data (1972-1991) for 109 source countries are pooled, and the Hausman-Taylor instrumental variable technique is employed to estimate regressions that satisfy adding-up restrictions. Along with measures of differential economic opportunities, migration costs, and US institutional controls, we incorporate into the analysis a unique set of variables relating to social programs in source countries. Such programs prove to be significant determinants of the age composition of US immigrants.
KW - Age composition
KW - Legal US immigrants
KW - Social programs
KW - Source-country
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U2 - 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00101-3
DO - 10.1016/S0047-2727(01)00101-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0038067820
SN - 0047-2727
VL - 87
SP - 739
EP - 771
JO - Journal of Public Economics
JF - Journal of Public Economics
IS - 3-4
ER -