Purpose – Much of the literature on immigrants’ cash-welfare benefits use has focused on countries with a large … tradition of receiving immigrants and with well-established welfare states. The purpose of this paper is to contribute to this … literature by analyzing differences in cash-welfare benefits receipt between immigrants and natives and their determinants in …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the issue of welfare use by migrants in Italy and overcome the … limitations of previous studies related to the quality of the data and to the high level of fragmentation of the Italian welfare … controlling for observable characteristics, migrants from outside the EU are more likely to apply for welfare. Once individual and …

Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a … compensating wage differential for working in one sector rather than in another. We identify price and wage effects of immigration … majority vote on immigration into a given sector as well as the social optimum. The main findings are that i) the old determine …

of native population are better or worse off with immigration and a fully redistributive pension system, we find that the … retirement benefits and hence the welfare levels of the host population are affected in a different way whether sharing or not …

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 … immigrantnative differences in welfare use. The empirical results suggest that the main reason for the large immigrant-native welfare …

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 … immigration flows since 1950 and a stronger selection policy. According to our simulations, the postwar US immigration is …

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

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

are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives and are more likely to stay on welfare and to receive … 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-refugee immigrants is …