Immigrants and poverty, and conditionality of immigrants' social rights
| Autor: | Beatrice Eugster |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Inequality
Poverty media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Immigration 300 Social sciences sociology & anthropology General Social Sciences Social rights Welfare state Conditionality Management Monitoring Policy and Law 0506 political science Political science 0502 economics and business 050602 political science & public administration Demographic economics 050207 economics Minimum wage Welfare media_common |
| DOI: | 10.7892/boris.127314 |
| Popis: | It is not only immigration and the incorporation of immigrants into society that serve as challenges for post-industrialised countries, but also rising inequality and poverty. This article focuses on both issues and proposes a new theoretical perspective on the determinants of immigrant poverty. Building on comparative welfare state research and international migration literature, I argue that immigrants’ social rights – here understood as their access to paid employment and welfare benefits – condition the impact which both the labour market and welfare system have on immigrants’ poverty. The empirical analysis is based on a newly collected dataset on immigrants’ social rights in 19 advanced industrialised countries. The findings confirm the hypotheses: more regulated minimum wage setting institutions and generous traditional family programmes reduce immigrants’ poverty more strongly in countries where they are granted easier access to paid employment and social benefits. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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