benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of …

. Immigrants are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives are and are more likely to stay on welfare and to …-refugee countries display a similar degree of ‘structural’ state dependence as natives. The high welfare participation rates among … refugee immigrants seem to be due to the existence of a ‘welfare trap’, while participation among natives and non …

dependence. In addition, the labour force status of the household head has different effects for native and immigrant welfare …

This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in … the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize …

This paper examines whether differences in welfare regimes shape the incentives to work and get educated. Using … microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … weakest welfare systems, i.e. those with what is known as ‘Residual’ welfare regimes (Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal …

This paper analyses the welfare effects of changes in cross-sectional wage dispersion, using a class of tractable … heterogeneous-agent economies. We emphasize a trade-off in the welfare calculation that arises when labour supply is endogenous. On … welfare loss roughly equivalent to a 2.5% decline in lifetime consumption. Assuming Cobb-Douglas preferences, this number is …