Chapter 1 reviews the methodology used and describes the standard occupational categories used in the various analyses. Chapter 2 sketches the economic scenario for the period up to 2015 as envisaged in the ESRI 2001 Medium-Term Review publication. Chapter 3 contains analyses of the occupational...

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...