Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62994 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Memorandum No. 2005,18
Publisher: 
University of Oslo, Department of Economics, Oslo
Abstract: 
Non-western immigrants in Norway are shown to rely heavily on welfare transfers for several years after immigration. While refugee immigrants assimilate slightly out of welfare, other non-western immigrants assimilate rapidly into welfare. Re-migration is selective for both non-western and western immigrants, insofar as the probability of re-migration correlates negatively with the probability of receiving welfare. We argue that previous studies may have reached biased estimates of welfare assimilation, both because they have disregarded the possibility of selective re-migration, and because they have focused only on social assistance, not taking into account the possibility of benefit substitution.
Subjects: 
immigrants
immigration
re-migration
JEL: 
F22
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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