Welfare migration in Europe

Giacomo De Giorgi and Michele Pellizzari

Labour Economics, 2009, vol. 16, issue 4, 353-363

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.

Keywords: EU; enlargement; Migration; Welfare; state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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