Economic Strategies of Immigrant and Non-immigrant Families in Los Angeles.

This paper focuses on differences in economic strategies between immigrant and non-immigrant families in Los Angeles. It asks whether immigrant and native families differ in how they combine a variety of resources, including work earnings, public assistance, shared housing with kin, and other sources of economic support. In addition to describing the combinations of resources immigrant and non-immigrant families use, the paper asks whether these two groups differ in the short-term stability of their economic strategies. I ask what individual and family characteristics, other than immigration status, account for differences in the combinations of resources that families use and the stability of these strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]