Abstract

                   EXPENDITURES  ON IMMIGRANTS, PAST AND PRESENTJulian L.

        Simon

             Good data show that in the 1970s immigrants contributed more

        to the public coffers than they received in public services.  The

        data are here displayed in full and the conclusion set forth in

        Simon (1984) holds. This conclusion is corroborated by Canadian

        studies for the 1980s and 1990s.  And the crude U. S. data for

        the recent period support the conclusion drawn earlier. Any

        increase in welfare expenditures on immigrants relative to

        natives is probably confined to the narrowly-defined category of

        welfare payments, which are relatively insignificant compared to

        schooling and social security, and probably occurred only among

        older immigrants.



             Julian L. Simon, College of Business and Management,

        University of Maryland, College Park


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