Immigrant Assimilation and Welfare Participation
利用瑞典1990-1996年面板数据，分析移民与本地人福利使用的差异，发现移民使用更多福利，且差异无法由可观测特征解释；福利参与随在瑞典时间增加而减少，难民同化速度更快，但均未达到本地人水平。
Abstract This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set for the years 1990 to 1996. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that differences cannot be explained by observable characteristics. Welfare participation decreases with time spent in Sweden. Refugees assimilate out of welfare at a faster rate than nonrefugee immigrants, but neither group is predicted to reach parity with natives. Increases in unemployment and immigration, as well as the change in the composition of immigrants, contributed to the increase in welfare utilization in Sweden.