The European Union's rules on free movement of people and the right to cross-border welfare are increasingly contested and have evoked one of the most salient debates in EU politics. The assumption that EU immigrants pose a net ‘welfare burden' on the host member state has sounded loud and...

Online appendix for the paper “The fiscal impact of EU immigration on the tax-financed welfare state: testing the ‘welfare burden' thesis”.Original paper is available at: 'https://ssrn.com/abstract=3014789' https://ssrn.com/abstract=3014789