Immigration policy and the welfare system
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Immigration policy and the welfare system
（A report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti）
Oxford University Press, 2002
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 21 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780199256303
Description
Immigration is right at the top of the political agenda for the 21st century. This book draws together and unifies analysis of immigration into the major EU countries and the US, presenting in an accessible and clear way the major trends and dramatic developments of the past decade. While the influence of the welfare state on immigration incentives is a key issue, various other influences on both legal and illegal migration are analysed, together with the implications of migration for the market outcomes on these two continents.
Table of Contents
- PART I: MANAGING MIGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN WELFARE STATE
- PART II: IMMIGRATION AND THE US ECONOMY: LABOUR-MARKET IMPACTS, ILLEGAL ENTRY, AND POLICY CHOICES
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780199256310
Description
This book offers a balanced and pragmatic view of the problems associated with international migration. It assembles contributions from two teams of leading scholars in the field. Part One presents the contribution of the first team which is focused on Europe. Part Two is devoted to the contribution of the second team which draws entirely on the US experience.
The two parts of the volume are self-contained and complementary in that they take a different theoretical and empirical perspective. For instance, Part One delves more deeply into the consequences of allowing migrants to have free access to the generous welfare state of European countries, whilst Part Two has more to say on policies repressing illegal migration as there is much more evidence of this in the US than in Europe.
Much can be learned by comparing the findings of the two parts and in trying to interpret the asymmetries between Europe and the US in migration policies and perceptions of public opinion on this phenomenon. The comments on the two parts by Giuseppe Bertola, George Borjas, Michael Burda, and Riccardo Faini, as well as the final remarks by Olivier Blanchard, Dani Rodrik and Giovanni Sartori, offer additional insights in this respect.
Table of Contents
- PART I: MANAGING MIGRATION IN THE EUROPEAN WELFARE STATE
- PART II: IMMIGRATION AND THE US ECONOMY: LABOUR-MARKET IMPACTS, ILLEGAL ENTRY, AND POLICY CHOICES
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