TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dustmann, Christian
AU  - Landersø, Rasmus
AU  - Andersen, Lars Højsgaard
        TI  - Refugee Benefit Cuts
        PY  - 2023/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16077
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp16077
        AB  - This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longerterm consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an increase in employment rates, but only in the short run. 
Overall, the reform increased poverty rates and led to a rise in subsistence crime. Moreover, local demand conditions generate substantial heterogeneity in the reform's effects on immediate and longer-term employment.

        KW  - social assistance
KW  - welfare state
KW  - labor market outcomes
KW  - labor demand
KW  - migration
        ER  -