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International Migration and Falling into the Income ‘Safety Net’:
Author(s) -
GUSTAFSSON BJÖRN
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
international migration
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.681
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1468-2435
pISSN - 0020-7985
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2435.1986.tb00796.x
Subject(s) - falling (accident) , safety net , citation , library science , sociology , demographic economics , political science , computer science , economics , psychology , law , psychiatry
The author focuses on public assistance payments to international immigrants in Sweden. "One object of the article is to give a statistical overview of the subject; another is to discuss reasons why international migrants receive social assistance more frequently than others. The latter leads to the formulation of econometric models and the estimation for immigrants with different backgrounds." It is found that "the number of immigrants receiving social assistance has increased since the mid-1960s. We also found that immigrants are considerably more frequent recipients of social assistance than others...." (SUMMARY IN FRE AND SPA)