Welfare migration in Europe |
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Authors: | Giacomo De Giorgi Michele Pellizzari |
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Institution: | 1. Centre d''Economie de la Sorbonne, Paris School of Economics, Université Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, France;2. IRES, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium;3. Poznań University of Economics, Poland;4. FNRS, National Fund for Scientific Research, Belgium |
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Abstract: | The enlargement of the European Union has increased concerns about the role of generous welfare transfers in attracting migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the countries of the pre-enlargement European Union and finds a significant but small effect of the generosity of welfare on migration decisions. This effect, however, is still large enough to distort the distribution of migration flows and, possibly, offset the potential benefits of migration as an inflow of mobile labour into countries with traditionally immobile native workers. |
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