Arbeitspapier

Immigrants on welfare: Assimilation and benefit substitution

Non-western immigrants in Norway are shown to rely heavily on welfare transfers for several years after immigration. While refugee immigrants assimilate slightly out of welfare, other non-western immigrants assimilate rapidly into welfare. Re-migration is selective for both non-western and western immigrants, insofar as the probability of re-migration correlates negatively with the probability of receiving welfare. We argue that previous studies may have reached biased estimates of welfare assimilation, both because they have disregarded the possibility of selective re-migration, and because they have focused only on social assistance, not taking into account the possibility of benefit substitution.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Memorandum ; No. 2005,18

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
International Migration
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Thema
immigrants
immigration
re-migration
Einwanderung
Soziale Integration
Sozialhilfeempfänger
Sozialhilfe
Schätzung
Norwegen

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Ekhaugen, Tyra
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University of Oslo, Department of Economics
(wo)
Oslo
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Ekhaugen, Tyra
  • University of Oslo, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2005

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