Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation

By J. Hansen, Magnus Lofstrom. The Journal of human resources, 2003

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This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set for the years 1990 to 1996. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that differences cannot be explained by observable characteristics. Welfare participation decreases with time spent in Sweden. Refugees assimilate out of welfare at a faster rate than nonrefugee immigrants, but neither group is predicted to reach parity with natives. Increases in unemployment and immigration, as well as the change in the composition of immigrants, contributed to the increase in welfare utilization in Sweden.

Subfields: Gender Studies, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science

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Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey (2011, background): “5 For example, IOM (1991), Layard et al. (1992), Coleman (1993), OECD (1998), Bauer and Zimmermann (1999), Fertig and Schmidt (2001), and Boeri and Brücker (2005).”
Assessing the Fiscal Costs and Benefits of A8 Migration to the UK (2009, methodology): “…natives to use the provision of the welfare state (see e.g. Borjas & Hilton (1996), Brucker, Epstein, Saint-Paul, Venturini, & Zimmerman (2002), Barrett & McCarthy (2007)) and/or whether immigrants assimilate into or out of the welfare state (e.g. Borjas & Trejo (1991), Hansen & Lofstrom (2003))7.”
Immigration and Economic Growth in the OECD Countries, 1986-2006 (2016, background): “Empirical economic analyses have been flourishing in recent years in two key areas likely to influence public opinion on migration, namely the labour market impact of immigrants (Borjas, 2003, 2009; Angrist and Kugler, 2003; Lubotsky, 2007; Ottaviano and Peri, 2008)1 and the fiscal impact of immigra”
Immigrants in a Booming Economy: Analysing Their Earnings and Welfare Dependence (2007, unknown): “Hansen and Lofstrom (2003) find that for Sweden the higher participation by immigrants remains, controlling for observable characteristics.”
Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution? (2009, background): “Hansen and Lofstrom (2003) analyse longitudinal administrative data compiled over the years between 1990 and 1996 to assess whether immigrants exhibit a more intensive use of welfare compared to natives.”