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| Title: | | Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects  |
| Authors: | | Büchel, Felix Frick, Joachim R. |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion paper series 788 |
| Abstract: | | Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a whole, the non-indigenous population in the UK fares much better than the immigrant population in Germany. However, the range of economic performance across different ethnic groups in the UK is much larger than that in Germany. The German corporatist welfare system is characterised by much stronger redistribution effects than the liberal UK one. Consequently, the relatively low-performing immigrant population in Germany profits more from the redistribution system than immigrants with similar socio-economic attributes in the UK. |
| Subjects: | | immigration migration policy income redistribution |
| JEL: | | J15 J18 D31 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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