destination countries are analysed. In both Denmark and Sweden, we report much higher poverty rates among the immigrants studied …-income countries reaching the normal pension age. Thus, it is increasingly relevant to ask: how are older migrants from such countries … faring? Here we study poverty rates and determinants of poverty among natives and persons born in Bosnia, Iran, Iraq …

Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries … become eligible for State pension. Poverty rates by national background are described using alternative household concepts …. Next, a number of background factors of relevance for poverty are summarized. We focus on age, gender, marital status …

This paper examines immigrant poverty at an older age in Sweden with an emphasis on late-in-life immigrants. We analyse … criteria is strongly positively related to one's age at immigration. Our results indicate that it is crucial that migrants … tax data for the entire Swedish-born and non-Swedish-born population. The poverty status of a household is assessed using …

and preferences) and thus be significantly affected by immigration affecting the distribution of characteristics … immigration, which may change the composition of the population in the ability and/or preference dimension. -- work incentives …

differences. -- Child poverty ; immigration ; Denmark ; Norway ; Sweden …Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … years since immigration and education affect risks of the number of periods in persistent poverty. While a native child is …

move. European countries have selective policies with regards to the health, education and wealth of migrants, who self …

We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …

While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to … investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using Italian provincial data and an instrumental … variables strategy, we show that the recent increase in the immigration of low skilled labour has produced human capital …