Work and welfare take-up of enlargement migrants in the United Kingdom

Monica Roman ()

Applied Economics Letters, 2019, vol. 26, issue 5, 341-344

Abstract: The Brexit decision was affected by the false perception that European Union (EU) enlargement migration, in particular from Romania and Bulgaria (EU2), has been a burden to the UK. The article analyses the debated but largely underresearched EU2 migration to the UK after accession to the EU in 2007 using data of the British Labour Force Survey. The novel findings are that EU2 migrants are found to exhibit quite different characteristics and behaviour than the other European migrants while doing better concerning work, self-employment and welfare take-up.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2018.1470311

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