The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens’ taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …

The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …

We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by … natives and immigrants in a pooled cross-section of 21 European countries for the 2004-2010 period. Explicitly controlling for … the dependence of immigrants and natives on benefits we find that higher benefit take-up rates among immigrants than among …

essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries … outside the OECD, with main emphasis on immigrants coming as guest workers before 1974, as refugees and as family members and …