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Life Cycle Surplus and Life Cycle Deficit of Immigrants versus Natives
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Abstract Recently, immigration and its socio-economic aspects have been in the centre of the European Union leaders’ agenda. In this paper, we apply the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology to calculate the complete set of NTA results for immigrants and natives in five EU countries. We find that due ... view more
Recently, immigration and its socio-economic aspects have been in the centre of the European Union leaders’ agenda. In this paper, we apply the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology to calculate the complete set of NTA results for immigrants and natives in five EU countries. We find that due to the lower labour income, which cannot be offset by the lower consumption, immigrants experience a shorter independence period and a much lower aggregate life cycle surplus than natives. The identified cross country differences between immigrants and natives could be used as a proxy of the achieved level of integration of immigrants.... view less
Keywords
EU; migrant; life cycle; EU citizen; integration
Classification
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Population Studies, Sociology of Population
Free Keywords
National Transfer Accounts; economic independence; life cycle deficit financing; EU-SILC 2011
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 36-51
Journal
Economic and Business Review, 24 (2022) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.15458/2335-4216.1296
ISSN
2335-4216
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0