Session 62:
Migration, politics and welfare states
Chair: Gosta Esping-Andersen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Differences in welfare take-up between immigrants and natives – a microsimulation study Jürgen Wiemers, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) ; Kerstin Bruckmeier, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Welfare, migration and the life course: welfare regimes and migration patterns of EU-citizens in the Netherlands Petra de Jong, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Helga A. G. de Valk, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Christof Van Mol, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Universiteit Antwerpen
Explaining the recent increase in asylum seekers from Africa to Europe Hannes Weber, University of Tuebingen
Political factors as drivers of international migration Martin Guzi, Masaryk University ; Alicia Adsera, Princeton University ; Carles Boix, Princeton University ; Mariola Pytlikova, CERGE-EI Prague and VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
Fear of small numbers? Immigrant population size and electoral support for the populist radical right in Switzerland Effrosyni Charitopoulou, University of Oxford ; Javier Garcia-Manglano, University of Oxford
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