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 …

Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by … terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National … now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks beyond the headlines. Why are …

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

. Immigrants are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives are and are more likely to stay on welfare and to …-refugee countries display a similar degree of ‘structural’ state dependence as natives. The high welfare participation rates among … refugee immigrants seem to be due to the existence of a ‘welfare trap’, while participation among natives and non …

Marcelli E. A. (2004) Unauthorized Mexican immigration, day labour and other lower-wage informal employment in …-income region with a relatively high rate of home ownership. Although welfare use had a positive effect on the probability of …

This survey presents findings from recent empirical studies on economic impacts of immigration with particular emphasis … on European and Nordic countries. The survey consists of three parts. First, we look at the extent of immigration as an … labor markets and the use of social benefits by immigrants. Third, the effect of immigration on natives? labor market …

The author studies the effect of immigration on world welfare. The world consists of two areas, South and North, the … world welfare, with a variety of social welfare functions. The interesting result is that the optimal level of immigration … the low-skill pool. The author calculates the optimal level of immigration, from an observer's point of view who maximizes …

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 …