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Chapter 11 - Do Immigration Tensions Fray the Safety Nets?

from Part IV - Confronting Threats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2021

Peter H. Lindert
Peter H. Lindert
Affiliation:
University of California, Davis
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Immigration surges have complex economic effects, and nationalist backlash has complex effects on social policy. The economic and fiscal effects of immigration are mixed in the short run, though clearly positive over the generations. There are four policy options relating to immigration and social safety nets: keeping immigration free, stopping it, discriminating again immigrants in entitlements, and selectivity in immigration. Chapter 11 weighs the political likelihoods.

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immigrationsocial spendingnationalismsafety nets
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Making Social Spending Work , pp. 235 - 253
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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