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Does welfare drive international migration? – a European experience

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dc.abstract.enPurpose 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.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorJakubiak, Igor
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-24T22:12:07Z
dc.date.available2024-01-24T22:12:07Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number2
dc.description.volume40
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/IJM-10-2017-0274
dc.identifier.issn0143-7720
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/105191
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/IJM-10-2017-0274/full/xml
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationeconomics and finance
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Manpower
dc.relation.pages246-264
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enbenefits
dc.subject.enEurope
dc.subject.enwelfare
dc.titleDoes welfare drive international migration? – a European experience
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication