Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in the Netherlands

Pennings, Frans

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“…However, the EU also recognizes the right of Member States to prevent so-called welfare tourism. 6 In this context, the Dutch government reserves the right to end the legal residence of EU citizens who receive social assistance and have resided in the Netherlands for less than five years (Pennings, 2020). 7 Third, the evidence is consistent with Borjas and Hilton (1996) who argue that migrants take time to start receiving public transfers because often they lack knowledge about eligibility rules.…”

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Intra-EU Migration, Public Transfers, and Assimilation: Evidence for the Netherlands

Suari-Andreu

Vliet

2022

SSRN Journal

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 82%

“…7 As thoroughly explained by Pennings (2020), EU migrants legally residing in the Netherlands have exactly the same rights of access to public benefits as Dutch natives. As mentioned in the main text, the only difference is that EU migrants who receive social assistance may lose their residence permit.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intra-EU Migration, Public Transfers, and Assimilation: Evidence for the Netherlands

Suari-Andreu

Vliet

2022

SSRN Journal

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“…The Dutch unemployment benefit is regulated by the Unemployment Benefit Act and chiefly financed by contributions from employers and employees (Pennings, 2020a: 317). The benefit level is related to the earnings received during the previous year and limited to a maximum amount (Article 17 (1) Social Insurance Financing Act).…”

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“…The benefit level is related to the earnings received during the previous year and limited to a maximum amount (Article 17 (1) Social Insurance Financing Act). The benefit duration depends upon the duration of previous work in the EU (Pennings, 2020a: 317). After 26 weeks of employment over a period of 36 weeks, a person is entitled to three months of unemployment benefits (Article 17, Article 42 Unemployment Benefit Act).…”

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Free movement and access to social security in the EU: The challenge of exporting unemployment benefits

Grabbe

2023

European Journal of Social Security

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The freedom of movement of EU workers and access to national welfare state systems has become a controversial topic among policymakers in recent years. To understand this, the article analyses the positions of Western European states towards the proposal of the European Commission to reform the European social security coordination. The structural problems of this reform and the current Regulation (EC) 883/2004 can be seen in the discussion on the export of unemployment benefits. Although Western European states have similar insurance-based and comprehensive unemployment systems, they have conflicting views on this issue. The article presents a comparative case study of Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. Data was generated via expert interviews and policy documents and analysed through institutionalist approaches. By tracing the debates on the export of unemployment benefits, the article makes a more general argument about the debate on the free movement of workers and social security in the EU. It explains that policymakers’ main concern is not only the financial burden on their welfare systems, but also that the current Regulation (EC) 883/2004 and the reform proposal are incompatible with national monitoring and enforcement systems, which are designed to work best when the worker is in the Member State of last employment. This incompatibility of the coordination rules with national rules creates opposition among policymakers to the access of EU workers to national welfare systems.

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“…However, only contributory pensions tend to be exportable, as non-contributory pensions are frequently reserved for residents. Similarly, some Member States may reduce the amount of pensions when beneficiaries reside in specific third countries (Pennings 2020).…”

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Do EU Member States Care About their Diasporas’ Access to Social Protection? A Comparison of Consular and Diaspora Policies across EU27

Lafleur

Vintila

2020

IMISCOE Research Series

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Despite the growing literature on sending states’ engagement with their populations abroad, little is known so far about their role in helping the diaspora deal with social risks. As argued in this chapter, this is mainly because past studies on sending states’ policies and institutions for the diaspora have failed to systematically focus on social protection, while also ignoring that regional integration dynamics often constrain domestic responses to the welfare needs of nationals residing abroad. This volume aims to fill this research gap by comparatively examining the type of diaspora infrastructure through which EU Member States address the vulnerabilities faced by populations abroad in five core areas of social protection: health care, pensions, family, unemployment, and economic hardship. Drawing on data from two original surveys with national experts, we operationalize the concepts of descriptive infrastructure for non-residents (i.e. the presence of diaspora-related institutions) and substantive infrastructure (i.e. policies that provide and facilitate access to welfare for nationals abroad) in order to propose a new typology of states’ engagement with their diaspora in the area of social protection.

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Migrants’ Access to Social Protection in the Netherlands

Cited by 5 publications

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Intra-EU Migration, Public Transfers, and Assimilation: Evidence for the Netherlands

Intra-EU Migration, Public Transfers, and Assimilation: Evidence for the Netherlands

Free movement and access to social security in the EU: The challenge of exporting unemployment benefits

Do EU Member States Care About their Diasporas’ Access to Social Protection? A Comparison of Consular and Diaspora Policies across EU27

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