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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis : Evidence from an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark
Agersnap, Ole; Jensen, Amalie Sofie; Kleven, Henrik - 2022
We study the effects of welfare generosity on international migration using reforms of immigrant welfare benefits in Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for natives or EU immigrants. The policy was later repealed...
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Immigrants, Welfare Reform, and the U.S. Safety Net
Bitler, Marianne P. - 2011
Beginning with the 1996 federal welfare reform law many of the central safety net programs in the U.S. eliminated eligibility for legal immigrants, who had been previously eligible on the same terms as citizens. These dramatic cutbacks affected eligibility not only for cash welfare assistance...
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The welfare state after the Great Recession
In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 47 (2012) 4, pp. 200-229
means cutting welfare measures. Yet social protection, in particular unemployment insurance benefits and minimum income …
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The Skill Composition of Immigrants and the Generosity of the Welfare State : Free vs. Policy-Controlled Migration
Cohen, Alon - 2010
composition of immigrants under free migration is negative. The reason is that welfare state benefits attract unskilled migrants … generosity (and taxes) of the welfare state on the skill composition of migrants is positive if migration is controlled by policy …. Being net contributors to the welfare state, skilled migrants can help finance a more generous welfare-state system; thus …
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The Skill Composition of Migration and the Generosity of the Welfare State
Cohen, Alon - 2009
Skilled migrants typically contribute to the welfare state more than they draw in benefits from it. The opposite holds … for unskilled migrants. This suggests that a host country is likely to boost (respectively, curtail) its welfare system …
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Intra-Household Welfare
Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2014
In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both different preferences and differential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an...
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Poverty Traps and the Social Protection Paradox
Ikegami, Munenobu - 2016
Progressively targeted cash transfers remain the dominant policy response to chronic poverty in developing countries. But are there alternative social protection policies that might have larger poverty impacts over time for the same public expenditure? To explore this question, this paper...
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The programmed dismantling of the “European social model”
Pochet, Philippe; Degryse, Christophe - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 47 (2012) 4, pp. 212-217
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A social and economic model for Europe
Canoy, Marcel; Smith, Peter M. - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 41 (2006) 6, pp. 315-327
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Towards a European Union of social investment welfare states
Hemerijck, Anton - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 58 (2023) 5, pp. 233-239
Having had little time to absorb the economic and social shock of the COVID-19 pandemic, the European Union is confronted with staggering increases in the cost of living. While household burdens vary significantly across and within countries, most European countries are struggling to cushion the...
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