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Immigration and Welfare State Cash Benefits: The Danish Case

Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The purpose in this paper is to summarize existing evidence on welfare dependence among immigrants in Denmark and to supply new evidence with focus on the most recent years. Focus is on immigrants from non-western countries. The paper contains an overview of the background regarding immigration...

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Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation: Do Immigrants Assimilate Into or Out-of Welfare

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

This paper analyzes 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 in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...

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Welfare Reform and Immigrant Fertility

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Averett, Susan L.; Bansak, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Immigration policy continues to be at the forefront of policy discussions, and the use of welfare benefits by immigrants has been hotly debated. In 1996, Congress enacted welfare reform legislation (PRWORA), which denied the use of most means-tested assistance to non-citizens and lowered...

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Immigrant-Native Differences in Welfare Participation: The Role of Entry and Exit Rates

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other...

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Immigration Participation in Social Assistance Programs

Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

The share of foreigners in the German social assistance program exceeds their population share and continues to grow. This study tests whether higher foreigner welfare dependence is due to foreign-native differences in behavior as opposed to exogenous characteristics. The determinants of welfare...

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Welfare Participation by Immigrants in the UK

Drinkwater, Stephen; Robinson, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004....

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The Dynamics of Immigrant Welfare and Labor Market Behavior

Hansen, Jörgen; Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

This paper analyzes transitions into and out of 3 different labor market states, social assistance, unemployment and employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved heterogeneity, using a large representative Swedish panel...

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Immigration, Regional Conditions, and Crime: Evidence from an Allocation Policy in Germany

Piopiunik, Marc; Ruhose, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that immigration significantly increases crime. The crime impact of immigration … substantially stronger effects in regions with high preexisting crime levels or large shares of foreigners. …

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Crime and Immigration: Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves

Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen; Fasani, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …

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