Migration and Welfare Systems – State of the Art and Research Challenges

Jakubiak, Igor

doi:10.1515/ceej-2017-0004

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“…For at least 60 years, researchers have been looking into people's incentives to migrate and choice of destination country, the economic and fiscal effects, the sustainability of the welfare state, and public support for redistribution, using various methods and approaches. A comprehensive review of literature in this field is presented in Jakubiak (2017). Many publications in this area try to answer the question about the welfare dependency of immigrants.…”

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Are Migrants Overrepresented Among Individual Welfare Beneficiaries?

Jakubiak

2020

International Migration

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The level of immigrant welfare dependency is the subject of heated debate in the majority of developed countries, which have experienced a significant increase in immigration in recent years. In both Europe and the US, the problem of potential excessive use of social transfers is beginning to bring real policy consequences. This article addresses this issue by presenting a quantitative assessment of welfare receipt in 17 European countries, as well as Yun decomposition of its differences between natives and immigrants. It adds to existing literature by comparing the levels of welfare dependence among EU and non-EU migrants for individual benefits including and excluding pensions, using recent data from EU-SILC. Results suggest that immigrants rely on welfare less often than natives, and receive lower benefits when they do. Those conclusions are reversed, however, when old-age benefits are not consideredespecially in the case of non-EU migrants.

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Are Migrants Overrepresented Among Individual Welfare Beneficiaries?

Jakubiak

2020

International Migration

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“…Migration has its downside too. It can strain social safety nets and raise socio-political tensions in migrant-receiving countries (Jakubiak 2017). This is because immigrants might stretch the socioeconomic and political infrastructure of the host country.…”

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(Ir)relevant doctrines and African realities: neoliberal and Marxist influences on labour migration governance in Southern Africa

Nshimbi

2022

Third World Quarterly

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“…One of the topics which often surfaces in this discussion is the relationship between migration and welfare arrangements. In the field of economics, the impact of welfare arrangements on migration size and composition forms one of the three main areas of research devoted to welfare migration ( Jakubiak, 2017). For the last two decades, Borjas's (1999) welfare magnet hypothesis has played a dominant role in this field.…”

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Does welfare drive international migration? – a European experience

Jakubiak

2019

IJM

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of empirical research on welfare magnetism and to assess the size and scope of the welfare magnet effect on the non-EU migrants in selected immigration countries of the European Union. Design/methodology/approach A conditional logistic regression model with interactions is used to estimate the strength of the welfare magnet effect, while controlling for demographic characteristics of the migrants and country-specific economic indicators. Data, used for estimation, comes from the Immigrant Citizen Survey, which provides a large, representative sample of first-generation (i.e. non-EU born) migrants. Various measures of welfare generosity are tested to assure the robustness of the results. Findings The coefficients suggest that the welfare magnet effect is present and significant in some immigrant groups, although it can have a negative impact on location decisions in other cases. Similar results are obtained for wage and unemployment indicators. Research limitations/implications Results corroborate the welfare magnet hypothesis, which states that more generous welfare states should expect greater clustering of negatively-selected (i.e. lower educated) migrants. One potential limitation comes from the sample size, which does not allow for more general conclusions. Practical implications Heterogeneous effects of basic economic indicators in different demographic groups show that aggregate immigrant flows, used widely in the literature, can provide biased estimates of welfare magnet effect. Originality/value This paper adds to the available literature by using representative, recently collected data and employing a more complete list of controls in a quantitative analysis of migration decisions.

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Migration and Welfare Systems – State of the Art and Research Challenges

Cited by 8 publications

References 85 publications

Are Migrants Overrepresented Among Individual Welfare Beneficiaries?

Are Migrants Overrepresented Among Individual Welfare Beneficiaries?

(Ir)relevant doctrines and African realities: neoliberal and Marxist influences on labour migration governance in Southern Africa

Does welfare drive international migration? – a European experience

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