local language are very high, but imported skills have zero (conditional) return. Furthermore, the welfare gain from the …

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 than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize social …

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 … immigrantnative differences in welfare use. The empirical results suggest that the main reason for the large immigrant-native welfare …

are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives and are more likely to stay on welfare and to receive … 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-refugee immigrants is …

We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

impact of immigration on entrepreneurial activity. Immigrants, we hypothesize, facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by … of immigrants (even if they are not self-employed) may prove to be areas in which entrepreneurship and innovation are …

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual …