How much does immigration contribute to national poverty rates? A decomposition analysis for 17 European welfare states

IF 3.2 2区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Socio-Economic Review Pub Date : 2024-03-07 DOI:10.1093/ser/mwae012
David de Smalen, Jan Van Bavel, Wim Van Lancker
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Over the past decades, many European welfare states failed to reduce poverty. We examine two coinciding trends: the inability to lower poverty rates, and the growth of immigrant populations. Immigrants have become the main contributor to population growth in Europe and have higher poverty risks than natives. This contribution quantifies to what extent national poverty rates were driven by population change. We present a Kitagawa–Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition of national poverty rates in 17 western European countries between 2005 and 2019 using EU-SILC data. The effect of shifting EU and non-EU immigrant populations on poverty rates is heterogeneous: while poverty in some countries increased substantially due to compositional changes, for the majority the effect was small or negligible, including in countries with above-average growth of foreign-born populations. Overall, in two-thirds of country–years changes in the population composition were not the main driver of national poverty rates.
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移民对国家贫困率的影响有多大?对 17 个欧洲福利国家的分解分析
过去几十年来,许多欧洲福利国家都未能减少贫困。我们研究了两个同时出现的趋势:无法降低贫困率,以及移民人口的增长。移民已成为欧洲人口增长的主要贡献者,其贫困风险高于本地人。本文量化了人口变化对国家贫困率的影响程度。我们利用欧盟-SILC 数据对 2005 年至 2019 年间 17 个西欧国家的国家贫困率进行了北川-布林德-瓦哈卡分解。欧盟和非欧盟移民人口的变化对贫困率的影响是不同的:虽然一些国家的贫困率因人口构成的变化而大幅上升,但对大多数国家来说,这种影响很小或可以忽略不计,包括外国出生人口增长高于平均水平的国家。总体而言,在三分之二的国家年中,人口构成的变化并不是国家贫困率的主要驱动因素。
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