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Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects

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dc.creator Büchel, Felix
dc.creator Frick, Joachim R.
dc.date 2003
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:08:09Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:08:09Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20033
dc.identifier ppn:36598101X
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/20033
dc.description Based on data from the BHPS and the GSOEP, we analyse the economic performance of various ethnic groups in the UK and West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of each country as the reference category, we find that, as a whole, the non-indigenous population in the UK fares much better than the immigrant population in Germany. However, the range of economic performance across different ethnic groups in the UK is much larger than that in Germany. The German corporatist welfare system is characterised by much stronger redistribution effects than the liberal UK one. Consequently, the relatively low-performing immigrant population in Germany profits more from the redistribution system than immigrants with similar socio-economic attributes in the UK.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation IZA Discussion paper series 788
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J15
dc.subject J18
dc.subject D31
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject immigration
dc.subject migration policy
dc.subject income redistribution
dc.subject Einwanderung
dc.subject Ausländer
dc.subject Ethnische Gruppe
dc.subject Einkommensverteilung
dc.subject Einkommensumverteilung
dc.subject Vergleich
dc.subject Großbritannien
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Immigrants in the UK and in West Germany - Relative Income Position, Income Portfolio, and Redistribution Effects
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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