Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes

Morissens, Ann

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“…Critical welfare-state scholars identify access to work as another key dimension of variation, particularly consequential for women (Orloff, 1993). Household non-employment is closely linked to poverty (Morrisens, 2006), and dual-earning couples are also protected against poverty compared to traditional breadwinner families. Sweden is an international leader in promoting women’s, especially mothers’, labor force participation (Gornick and Meyers, 2003), which reduces poverty risks there, compared to Germany and the UK.…”

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“…The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), the definitive data source for cross-national studies of poverty, has no standardized definitions for country of birth/immigrant status and sample sizes are too small to study immigrants by detailed country of origin. LIS has been used to study immigrant/minority poverty (Morrisens, 2006; Smeeding et al, 2009), but it is difficult to disentangle whether observed cross-national differences are due to differences in the composition of or definition of immigrant populations. In particular, the British data classify persons based on ethnicity only, and have no information about country of birth, which is common in many British studies of minority poverty (Platt, 2007).…”

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Welfare states and immigrant poverty

Kesler

2014

Acta Sociologica

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This article examines immigrant poverty across three institutionally distinct European states: Germany, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Focusing on 33 immigrant groups and controlling for sending country in addition to human capital and family characteristics, the analysis explores host country variation in (1) immigrant/native-born poverty gaps and (2) the underlying poverty levels at which these gaps occur. Findings reveal the largest poverty gaps in Sweden and demonstrate that this is due to immigrants' comparatively severe labor market disadvantages. However, underlying poverty levels are also lowest in Sweden because of a two-pronged policy strategy of enabling work (particularly among women, immigrant and native-born alike) and reducing poverty through income support. Thus, immigrants in Sweden live at lower levels of poverty than their immigrant counterparts elsewhere, despite facing higher levels of inequality vis-à-vis native-born Swedes. The conclusion considers implications of poverty gaps and poverty levels, especially for the children of immigrants.

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Welfare states and immigrant poverty

Kesler

2014

Acta Sociologica

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“…Only recently has attention turned to the impact of social policies on immigrants’ well-being and social inclusion. Most attempts to elucidate the policy impact have compared the entitlements and utilization rates of immigrants vis-à-vis those of the population generally or those of the native-born (Morissens, 2006; Morissens and Sainsbury, 2005; Sainsbury, 2012; Van Hooren and Hemerijck, 2014).…”

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Policy constructions, immigrants’ social rights and gender: The case of Swedish childcare policies

Sainsbury

2018

Journal of European Social Policy

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This article explores how policy constructions shape policy outcomes for immigrant women and men, focusing on two Swedish childcare policies: (1) parental leave and (2) childcare services. It sheds light on the dynamics between policy constructions and (1) the gender differentiation in immigrants’ social entitlements, (2) the gender differentiation in social entitlements of the Swedish-born population and (3) differences and similarities between the two. Among the major findings is that the universal construction of childcare services and parental insurance promotes parity in immigrant and Swedish-born parents’ utilization. Immigrant families have high enrolment rates in childcare programmes and their rates approach or equal those of non-immigrant families. In the case of parental benefits, over 40 percent of immigrant mothers would be ineligible without the universal construction, and a huge immigrant/ethnic divide in entitlement would exist. Second, a gender differentiation characterizes the claiming of parental benefits, and the differentiation is sharper for immigrant parents. Third, the ethnicity benefit differential is much wider for mothers’ parental leave benefits than for fathers’ benefits. Fourth, despite universal policy constructions, immigrants’ weaker attachment to the labour market affects their social rights, and the effect is greater for immigrant women.

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“…Within the European Union there is a certain degree of political consensus regarding the need for workers from non-European countries to enter EU labour markets. The reasons stated in support of this opinion generally refer to falling birth rates and population ageing (European Commission, 2007, 2008, with some analysts even speaking of a 'demographic crisis' (Schierup et al, 2006). This situation was acknowledged at the Tampere Council, where it was stated that ' .…”

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Public opinion, immigration and welfare in the context of uncertainty

Artiles

Meardi

2014

Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research

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European citizens are largely unfavourable to immigration. These restrictive attitudes are linked to such factors as the unemployment rate and risk of poverty, as well as to competition for employment and welfare resources. Refuting insider/outsider theories, this article shows, via an analysis of recent European Social Surveys, that national social protection policies can reduce hostility towards immigration, insofar as they moderate social inequality and the risk of poverty. Ethnic and racial differences are problematic for the ‘egalitarian compromise’ underpinning the welfare state. Nonetheless, strong trade unions and social protection policies are associated with greater integration of immigrants. Over time, the future sustainability of welfare systems may depend on the participation of immigrants as a political force, making their integration even more important.

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Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes

Cited by 9 publications

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Welfare states and immigrant poverty

Welfare states and immigrant poverty

Policy constructions, immigrants’ social rights and gender: The case of Swedish childcare policies

Public opinion, immigration and welfare in the context of uncertainty

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