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This paper evaluates the linkage between social security strategies and redistributive effects in EU social transfer systems. It is argued that the various European systems produce different patterns of redistribution that may be explained by the adoption of different mixes of social security...
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Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance transfers. The income flows to the State comprise direct taxes … pensions - are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but progressive …
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The question whether ethnic diversity is associated with declining social cohesion has produced much controversy. We maintain that more attention must be paid to cognitive mechanisms to move the debate ahead. Using survey data from 938 localities in Germany, France, and the Netherlands, we...
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a desire for social distance; via the direct experience of immigrant unemployment and putative welfare receipt in the …
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workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely … inflow of migrant workers. More interesting, though, it is shown that a larger share of migrants in the workforce increases …
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The Six Country Immigrant Integration Comparative Survey (SCIICS) is a large-scale telephone survey conducted in 2008. The aim was to collect comparable data across European countries (the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria and Sweden) with different integration policies as well as...
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This study deals with the impact of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis on the ethnic identity of resident migrants in … that higher shares of refugees in a county increased migrants' attachment to their home countries, while not affecting … consumption of foreign media. Lastly, I find that changes in ethnic identity coincide with the political polarization of migrants …
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According to the "welfare magnet" hypothesis, migrants with a high likelihood of claiming benefits cluster in the most …
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experience lower job rotation and shorter spells of unemployment. On the other hand, the comparison also reveals some differences …
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