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Welfare in Europe: Benefits tourism not OK

14 November 2014

How common is benefits tourism? Numbers of migrants and recipients of non-contributory benefits have both risen. ... there seems to be a (weak) correlation between generous non-contributory benefits and numbers of inactive migrants (see chart). ''Migrants are systematically over-represented in the population of recipients of non-contributory transfers,'' says Tito Boeri of Bocconi University in Milan and the London School of Economics. Even when controlling for socioeconomic characteristics, he notes that a disproportionate share of migrants depend on such transfers in France, Sweden and, to a lesser extent, Belgium and Germany.

This article was published by ACQ Magazine on November 14, 2014
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Related links
Tito Boeri webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage

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