Immigration Policy and the Welfare State: A Report for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti

This book draws together and unifies analysis of immigration into the major EU countries and the US, making digestible and transparent the major trends and dramatic developments of the past decade. While the influence of the welfare state on immigration incentives is a key issue, various other influences on both legal and illegal migration are analyzud, together with the implications of migration for the market outcomes on these two continents.