Refugee Benefit Cuts

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dustmann, Christian; Landerso, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars Hojsgaard
• 署名单位: University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20220062
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 406-441
• 关键词: welfare-reform; taxable income; LABOR; PARTICIPATION; assistance; migration; responses; decline; ASYLUM; rise

摘要

This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002 , it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects but also its longer -term consequences and its repeal a decade later. The reform -induced large transfer cuts led to an increase in employment rates , but only in the short run. Overall , the reform increased poverty rates and led to a rise in subsistence crime. Moreover , local demand conditions generate substantial heterogeneity in the reform's effects on immediate and longer -term employment. ( JEL I32, I38, J15, J22, J64, K42 )