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Venue address: ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, R. Francesinhas 21, 1200-675 Lisboa, Portugal
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Sept 2026, 11:38:05am WEST
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D13: Labour Supply, Welfare Eligibility, and Minimum Income Schemes Location: Room 114 (Francesinhas 1) | |
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Immigrant Labor Supply Responses to Welfare Eligibility 1: VATT, Finland; 2: Helsinki GSE; 3: Aalto University Immigrants’ access to welfare benefits and public services is central to immigration policy debates, yet credible evidence on how eligibility affects labor supply remains limited. We study this question using a natural experiment, where Ukrainian refugees unexpectedly became eligible for a broad set of welfare benefits and public services after 12 months of residence in Finland. Using high-frequency administrative data, we compare monthly employment and earnings trajectories of Ukrainian refugees to similar migrants whose welfare eligibility was unaffected. We find substantial but incomplete take-up of benefits but a decline in labor supply after eligibility: employment falls by about 4 percentage points and earnings by 13 percent in the first year. For refugees with children, access to childcare services increases labor supply relative to non-parents. Exploiting regional variation in coverage, we show that early access to immigrant training mitigates employment losses, although part of the short-run decline reflects full-time language-training enrollment.
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