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Refugee Benefit Cuts

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This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longer-term consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an increase in employment rates, but only in the short run. Overall, the reform increased poverty rates and led to a rise in subsistence crime. Moreover, local demand conditions generate substantial heterogeneity in the reform's effects on immediate and longer-term employment.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 05/23

Classification
Wirtschaft
Incomes Policy; Price Policy
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
Subject
Social assistance
welfare state
labor market outcomes
labor demand
migration

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dustmann, Christian
Landerso, Rasmus
Andersen, Lars Hojsgaard
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
(where)
London
(when)
2023

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Dustmann, Christian
  • Landerso, Rasmus
  • Andersen, Lars Hojsgaard
  • Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London

Time of origin

  • 2023

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