of recent immigration. Our model has two production sectors (manufacturing and services), two skill groups and two ethnic …, especially in the high skill segment. Our results show that recent immigration to Germany, including refugees, has a moderate … negative effect on the welfare of low skill workers in manufacturing (-0.6%), but all other worker groups are gaining from …

experienced little change in the heterogeneity of their populations. We examine impacts of immigration on welfare benefit rates of … to experience elsewhere. This paper examines this question for the case of Canadian social assistance (welfare) policies … growth has varied substantially across regions. The second is that welfare policies vary across provinces, and the ability of …

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …

We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …

data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s …This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel …. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize social …

hostility to immigration from ethnically distinct populations. Furthermore, there is evidence that welfare and labour market … about the welfare system, are often believed to manifest themselves in hostile attitudes towards population groups that are … considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are …

local language are very high, but imported skills have zero (conditional) return. Furthermore, the welfare gain from the …

This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945-2000) on the US economy. Contrary to … recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and small redistributive effects among natives. Our … method to calibrate the model on historical data and then consider two counterfactual variants: a cutoff of all immigration …

This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large … representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use …-native differences in welfare use. The empirical results suggest that the main reason for the large immigrant-native welfare gap observed …