According to the welfare magnet hypothesis, migrants with a high likelihood of claiming benefits cluster in the most … generous welfare systems. After the introduction of the freedom of movement for Eastern European workers, EU-15 countries can … thus be expected to reduce public benefits in order to avoid becoming welfare magnets. However, OECD data on benefits do …

According to the welfare magnet hypothesis, migrants with a high likelihood of claiming benefits cluster in the most … generous welfare systems. After the introduction of the freedom of movement for Eastern European workers, EU-15 countries can … thus be expected to reduce public benefits in order to avoid becoming welfare magnets. However, OECD data on benefits do …

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 …

, to reduce welfare access by migrants or further tighten migration policies. Are there politically feasible alternatives … and self-selection migrants more likely to draw on welfare in the countries with the most generous welfare state. Moreover … explicitly selective migration policies. Other options involve restricting welfare access by migrants and subsidising voluntary …

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 …

The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western …, it does so only if it meets with flexible labour markets and if it is not artificially induced by gifts from the welfare …

public benefits in order to avoid becoming "welfare magnets". However, OECD data do not support the prediction of a race to … that welfare state variables affect migration flows when controlling for temporary political restrictions of the freedom of … movement. This explains why the pressure to modify welfare spending is small. Furthermore, evidence is found that the …