PATTERNS OF SSI RECEIPT AMONG ELDERLY IMMIGRANTS

在过去的10到15年里，研究人员观察到了大量 由于移民数量的增加，SSI案件数量增加 领取福利的人(Ross，1995；Rector，1996)。此外，以前的 使用1980年和1990年美国人口普查数据的研究表明，移民 接受SSI的比率比本地人更高，这种差异 即使在年龄结构、残疾、贫困和 还考虑了其他一些社会变量(Bean、Van Hook和Glick，1996)。拟议研究的主要关注点是 为了揭示绝对和相对增长的决定因素， 老年和残障移民与当地人社会保障措施领取情况比较 利用1980年和1990年的人口普查数据，1994年和1995年3月目前 人口调查(CPS)数据文件和最近的人口普查小组 收入和计划参与(SIPP)。这项研究的具体目的是 用术语解释移民/本地人的差异和随时间的变化 与资格直接相关的特征的差异 SSI(年龄、残疾、收入和资产)，特征差异 直接或间接地导致SSI收款，包括 提供替代支助手段(社会保障收据、 自置居所、代内财富转移、人力资本 变量)，以及使用福利倾向的差异可能是 在移民社区中检测到。因为移民不会 包括一个同质的群体，研究将辨别出 不同原籍国和入境时期的决定因素 移民群体。

Over the past 10 to 15 years, researchers have observed substantial growth in the SSI caseload due to increases in the numbers of immigrants who receive benefits (Ross, 1995; Rector, 1996). Moreover, previous research that uses 1980 and 1990 U.S. census data shows that immigrants receive SSI at higher rates than do natives, and that this differential remains even when differences in age structure, disability, poverty and a number of other social variables are taken into account (Bean, Van Hook, and Glick, 1996). The primary concern of the proposed research is to disclose the determinants of both the absolute and relative growth in SSI receipt among elderly and disabled immigrants compared to natives using 1980 and 1990 census data, the 1994 and 1995 March Current Population Survey (CPS) data files and recent panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The research specifically aims to explain immigrant/native differentials and changes over time in terms of differences in characteristics relating directly to eligibility for SSI (age, disability, income and assets), differences in characteristics leading both directly and indirectly to SSI receipt including the availability of alternative means of support (Social Security receipt, home ownership, intragenerational wealth transfers, human capital variables), and differences in the propensity to use welfare that may be detected within communities of immigrants. Because immigrants do not comprise a homogeneous group, the research will discern the patterns of determinants among various country-of-origin and period-of-entry immigrant cohorts.