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The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...
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and women within couples in a selection of the member countries of the European Union (EU) using EUROMOD, the EU tax …
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While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better … including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 … and EU10 countries are analysed using individual data on migration intentions. In addition, perceptions about the size of …
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the actual implementation of this system would be politically problematic. -- EU enlargement ; migration ; welfare state …
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This paper uses ECHP and OECD data for 14 EU countries to explore the role of labour market factors in explaining cross …
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analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are … out the difficulties that restrictions on the free movement of workers bring about. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU …
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who have been trained in Europe could set a new course. -- Migration ; migration effects ; EU Eastern enlargement ; free …
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This paper analyses the dynamic structure of individual earnings across 14 EU countries over the period 1994-2001 using … relevant in the context of the changes that took place in the EU labour market policy framework after 1995 under the incidence …
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The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall … numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed … unevenly among countries. The proportion of these migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …
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This paper provides unprecedented direct evidence from large-scale survey data on both the intensity (how much?) and direction (to whom?) of income comparisons. Income comparisons are considered to be at least somewhat important by three-quarters of Europeans. They are associated with both lower...
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