TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Furtado, Delia
AU  - Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos
        TI  - Immigrant Networks and the Take-Up of Disability Programs: Evidence from US Census Data
        PY  - 2012/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6649
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6649
        AB  - 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 amidst 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.
        KW  - supplementary security income
KW  - social security disability insurance
KW  - networks
KW  - immigrants
        ER  -