Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33982 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 2261
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes differences in welfare transitions between natives and immigrants in Sweden using a large representative panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1991 to 2001. The data contains administrative information on welfare use, country of birth, and time of arrival in Sweden among other things, and provides an excellent opportunity to examine immigrant-native differences in welfare use. The empirical results suggest that the main reason for the large immigrant-native welfare gap observed in the data is differences in welfare entry rates. Thus, policies aimed to reduce these transitions may be particularly successful in reducing welfare use in general and the immigrant-native welfare gap in particular.
Subjects: 
welfare
immigration
labor market behavior
transition
state dependence
JEL: 
I30
I38
J15
J18
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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