The dynamics of welfare entry and exit amongst natives and immigrants

This article studies welfare entry and exit in Germany and determines the relevance of state dependence for natives and immigrants. Based on dynamic multinomial logit estimations, we calculate transition matrices between three labour market states. We find that temporal persistence in welfare partic...

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Volume:	66
Main Author:	Christoph Wunder Regina T. Riphahn
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	OXFORD Oxford University Press 01.04.2014 OXFORD UNIV PRESS
published in:	Oxford economic papers Vol. 66; no. 2; pp. 580 - 604
Data of publication:	20140401
ISSN:	0030-7653 1464-3812
EISSN:	1464-3812
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Public assistance programs Transition probabilities Employment Immigration Labor markets Citizenship Unemployment insurance Insurance benefits Unemployment Welfare reform Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Germans Research Welfare Immigrants Social service Social science research Germany SYSTEM SOCIAL ASSISTANCE TAKE-UP POOR MIGRANTS UNEMPLOYMENT DEPENDENCE
Online Access:	Fulltext
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2014 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Academic OneFile (A&I only) Database information Databases - DBIS