This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in … the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize …

This paper examines whether differences in welfare regimes shape the incentives to work and get educated. Using … microeconomic data for more than 100,000 European individuals, the results show that welfare regimes make a difference for wages and … weakest welfare systems, i.e. those with what is known as ‘Residual’ welfare regimes (Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal …

institutions in the presence of unionized labour markets on economic outcomes and welfare in the long run. Two main classes of … monopolistically competitive firms and through them on unemployment, inflation and welfare? Second, how are labour taxes and … redistribution chosen by a (Stackelberg leader) fiscal authority whose objectives are a weighted average of social welfare and of …

dependence. In addition, the labour force status of the household head has different effects for native and immigrant welfare …

. Immigrants are less likely to remain employed in consecutive years than natives are and are more likely to stay on welfare and to …-refugee countries display a similar degree of ‘structural’ state dependence as natives. The high welfare participation rates among … refugee immigrants seem to be due to the existence of a ‘welfare trap’, while participation among natives and non …