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 …

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 …

In this paper we develop theoretical criteria and econometric methods to rank policy interventions in terms of welfare … of the distributions of policy-induced gains and losses. It applies to the class of welfare functions which model … procedures to a partially-identified case. Finally, we illustrate our methods with an empirical application to welfare comparison …

Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to … Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these … assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect of different welfare arrangements on benefit fraud. In particular, we …

welfare than assimilated ethnic minorities who live in less segregated areas. We find that a policy that reduces …