Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58430 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6220
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The purpose in this paper is to summarize existing evidence on welfare dependence among immigrants in Denmark and to supply new evidence with focus on the most recent years. Focus is on immigrants from non-western countries. The paper contains an overview of the background regarding immigration in recent decades followed by a survey of relevant benefit programmes in the Danish welfare state. Existing studies focus on both macro analyses of the overall impact from immigration on the public sector budget and on micro oriented studies with focus on specific welfare programs. Existing studies focus on the importance for welfare dependence of demographic variables, on the big variation between countries of origin and on the importance of cyclical factors at time of entry and during the first years in the new country. Evidence from the most recent years reinforce the importance of aggregate low unemployment in contrast to fairly small effects found from policy changes intending to influence the economic incentives between welfare and a job for immigrants.
Subjects: 
immigration
general welfare programs
effects of welfare programs
JEL: 
H53
I38
J61
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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