Does welfare drive international migration? A European experience.

Autor/in	Jakubiak, Igor Jerzy
Titel	Does welfare drive international migration? A European experience. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Steuert Wohlfahrt die internationale Migration? Erfahrungen aus Europa.
Quelle	In: International journal of manpower, 40 (2019) 2, S. 246-264 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0143-7720; 1758-6577
DOI	10.1108/IJM-10-2017-0274
Schlagwörter	Motivation; Einwanderungsland; Migration; Sozialleistung; Wohlfahrtsstaat; Ökonomische Determinanten; Qualifikation; Internationaler Vergleich; Deutschland; Drittland; Frankreich; Italien; Spanien
Abstract	"Purpose; The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of empirical research on welfare magnetism and to assess the size and scope of the welfare magnet effect on the non-EU migrants in selected immigration countries of the European Union.; Design/methodology/approach; A conditional logistic regression model with interactions is used to estimate the strength of the welfare magnet effect, while controlling for demographic characteristics of the migrants and country-specific economic indicators. Data, used for estimation, comes from the Immigrant Citizen Survey, which provides a large, representative sample of first-generation (i.e. non-EU born) migrants. Various measures of welfare generosity are tested to assure the robustness of the results.; Findings; The coefficients suggest that the welfare magnet effect is present and significant in some immigrant groups, although it can have a negative impact on location decisions in other cases. Similar results are obtained for wage and unemployment indicators.; Research limitations/implications; Results corroborate the welfare magnet hypothesis, which states that more generous welfare states should expect greater clustering of negatively-selected (i.e. lower educated) migrants. One potential limitation comes from the sample size, which does not allow for more general conclusions.; Practical implications; Heterogeneous effects of basic economic indicators in different demographic groups show that aggregate immigrant flows, used widely in the literature, can provide biased estimates of welfare magnet effect.; Originality/value; This paper adds to the available literature by using representative, recently collected data and employing a more complete list of controls in a quantitative analysis of migration decisions." (Author's abstract, © Emerald Group).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2019/3