Giorgi, Giacomo De; Pellizzari, Michele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 countries of the pre-enlargement Union and finds a … significant but small effect of the generosity of welfare on migration decisions. This effect, however, is still large enough to … distort the distribution of migration flows and, possibly, offset the potential benefits of migration as an inflow of mobile …