Does immigration affect welfare state generosity? Quasi-experimental evidence

dc.contributor.author	Jakobsson, Niklas
dc.contributor.editor	Tengstam, Sven
dc.date.accessioned	2014-06-27T07:45:25Z
dc.date.available	2014-06-27T07:45:25Z
dc.date.issued	2014-06
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/36248
dc.description	JEL: F22, H53, J61	sv
dc.description.abstract	This note studies the impact of immigration on welfare state generosity in 12 Western European countries. In estimations not coping with the possible endogeneity problem, there are indications of a negative relationship between immigration and welfare state generosity. However, when the distance to the Balkan wars are used as a source of exogenous variation in the immigrant share, as to overcome potential endogeneity in mobility across countries, our findings suggest that an increase in the immigrant share does not decrease welfare state generosity.	sv
dc.format.extent	13	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	599	sv
dc.subject	benefit generosity	sv
dc.subject	immigration	sv
dc.subject	social spending	sv
dc.subject	welfare benefit	sv
dc.title	Does immigration affect welfare state generosity? Quasi-experimental evidence	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv
dc.contributor.organization	Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv