Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden

dc.contributor.author	Ruist, Joakim
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-23T08:05:49Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-23T08:05:49Z
dc.date.issued	2015-02
dc.identifier.issn	1403-2465
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2077/38323
dc.description	JEL: H20, H50, J19, J61	sv
dc.description.abstract	This study estimates the fiscal cost of refugee immigration. This is done by calculating the total value of economic resources that are redistributed through the public sector in Sweden in 2007 to the population of immigrants who once arrived in the country as refugees or their family members. The total redistribution corresponds to 1.0% of Swedish GDP in the same year. Four-fifths of it is due to lower public per-capita revenues from refugees compared with the total population, and one-fifth is due to higher per-capita public costs associated with refugees.	sv
dc.format.extent	20	sv
dc.language.iso	eng	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Working Papers in Economics	sv
dc.relation.ispartofseries	613	sv
dc.subject	immigration	sv
dc.subject	public finances	sv
dc.subject	refugees	sv
dc.title	Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden	sv
dc.type	Text	sv
dc.type.svep	report	sv
dc.contributor.organization	Dept. of Economics, University of Gothenburg	sv