Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58678 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6144
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Welfare participation is an important indicator of how successfully immigrants perform in the host country. This paper examines this issue for the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years, especially following EU enlargement in 2004. The analysis focuses in particular on the types of benefits that immigrants tend to claim as well as examining differences by area of origin. It also examines the factors that determine social benefit claims, including an investigation of the impact of education, ethnicity and years since migration. Social welfare claims vary considerably by immigrant group as well as by the type of benefit claimed in the UK. There is also some variation by gender within the migrant groups.
Subjects: 
immigration
United Kingdom
benefit claims
EU enlargement
JEL: 
J61
F22
I38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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