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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers …
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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 …
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We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...
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High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...
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This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an increase in the share of service-related jobs in total...
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The age at which children leave the parental home differs considerably across countries. In this paper we argue that lower job insecurity of parents and higher job insecurity of children delay emancipation. We provide aggregate evidence which supports this hypothesis for 12 European countries...
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