Session 62:
Migration, politics and welfare states
Chair: Gosta Esping-Andersen, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Differences in welfare take-up between immigrants and natives – a microsimulation study • Jürgen Wiemers, Institute for Employment Research (IAB) ; Kerstin Bruckmeier, Institute for Employment Research (IAB)
Welfare, migration and the life course: welfare regimes and migration patterns of EU-citizens in the Netherlands • Petra de Jong, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Helga A. G. de Valk, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel ; Christof Van Mol, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) and Universiteit Antwerpen
Explaining the recent increase in asylum seekers from Africa to Europe • Hannes Weber, University of Tuebingen
Political factors as drivers of international migration • Martin Guzi, Masaryk University ; Alicia Adsera, Princeton University ; Carles Boix, Princeton University ; Mariola Pytlikova, CERGE-EI Prague and VSB-Technical University of Ostrava
Fear of small numbers? Immigrant population size and electoral support for the populist radical right in Switzerland • Effrosyni Charitopoulou, University of Oxford ; Javier Garcia-Manglano, University of Oxford
Other sessions on International Migration and Migrant Populations