The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether … immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the … European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for 2007, we find very little evidence that immigrants are indeed more …

welfare access by migrants or further tighten migration policies. Are there politically feasible alternatives to these two … migrants more likely to draw on welfare in the countries with the most generous welfare state. Moreover, redistribution does … not find much support among those who are in favour of immigration. A way out of the migration into the welfare state …

This paper estimates the welfare and distributional impact of two types of welfare reform in the 15 (pre … welfare) while the second reform distributes tax proceeds uniformly to workers only (in-work benefit). We build a simple model … EUROMOD to describe current welfare and tax systems in European Union countries and use calibrated labor supply elasticities …

earnings of immigrants as compared to native workers, in particular to test whether there is any systematic variation in the … labor market performance of immigrants across gender related to duration in the destination, schooling, age at immigration …

The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers …

examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare … asks if immigrants use welfare more intensively than natives and if they assimilate out of or into welfare participation …. In most cases, the unadjusted data shows higher use of welfare by immigrants although for some countries, for example …