Purpose – In this paper, the authors aim to assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments … relative to natives across a range of European countries. They also seek to examine relative rates of poverty across immigrants … little evidence that immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments when all payments are considered together. This …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare the rates of receipt of welfare for immigrants and natives in Ireland … years preceding the recession, immigrants were less likely to be in receipt of welfare payments, whether one looks at … adjusted or unadjusted data. The recession, and the consequent job losses among immigrants, gave rise to a possible surge in …

Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard … whether immigrants are as likely to receive employer-provided training relative to comparable natives. As such training should … be crucial in determining the labour market success of immigrants in the long run it is a critically important question …

immigrants. However, much less attention has been paid to the re-adjustment challenges migrants face on their return. In this …

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 …

to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the rates of receipt of welfare for … immigrants and natives to see if the outcome is consistent with the operation of this policy. Using data from 2008, we generally … find lower rates of welfare receipt among immigrants. While the numbers of immigrants claiming unemployment …

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived … immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are shown to be a highly educated group. However, they are not all … immigrants (a) if they were employed at a level fitting their education and (b) if they were employed in occupations below their …

examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare … particular on issues where the European literature is thin. One set of papers asks whether immigrants who are more likely to use … asks if immigrants use welfare more intensively than natives and if they assimilate out of or into welfare participation …

Much has been written about the labour market outcomes for immigrants in their host countries, particularly with regard … whether immigrants are as likely to receive employer-provided training relative to comparable natives. As such training should … be crucial in determining the labour market success of immigrants in the long run it is a critically important question …

examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare … particular on issues where the European literature is thin. One set of papers asks whether immigrants who are more likely to use … asks if immigrants use welfare more intensively than natives and if they assimilate out of or into welfare participation …