The labor force participation rate of naturalized citizens, for example, rose slightly from 83.7
to 84.3% in the more generous states, and was stable at 84.0% in the less generous states.
In contrast, the labor force participation rate of non-citizens rose from 84.4 to 86.9% in the
more generous states, but increased by 6 percentage points (from 82.5 to 88.5%) in the less
generous states. The descriptive evidence, therefore, clearly indicates that the immigrant men who could have been most adversely affected by welfare reform substantially increased
their labor supply