Arbeitspapier
Refugee Benefit Cuts
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 longerterm 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.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16077
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Incomes Policy; Price Policy
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General
- Subject
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labor market outcomes
welfare state
social assistance
labor demand
migration
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Dustmann, Christian
Landerso, Rasmus
Andersen, Lars Højsgaard
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
- (where)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2023
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Dustmann, Christian
- Landerso, Rasmus
- Andersen, Lars Højsgaard
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2023
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