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The Welfare Magnet Hypothesis: Evidence From an Immigrant Welfare Scheme in Denmark / Ole Agersnap, Amalie Sofie Jensen, Henrik Kleven.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agersnap, Ole.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26454.
- NBER working paper series no. w26454
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Welfare Magnet Hypothesis
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.
- Summary:
- We study the effects of welfare generosity on international migration using reforms of immigrant welfare benefits in Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for natives or EU immigrants. The policy was later repealed and re-introduced. Based on a quasi-experimental research design, we find sizeable effects: the benefit reduction reduced the net flow of immigrants by about 5,000 people per year, and the subsequent repeal of the policy reversed the effect almost exactly. The implied elasticity of migration with respect to benefits equals 1.3. This represents some of the first causal evidence on the welfare magnet hypothesis.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- November 2019.
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