Book contents
- Making Social Spending Work
- Making Social Spending Work
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Appendices
- Part I Overview
- Part II The Long Rise, and Its Causes
- Part III What Effects?
- Part IV Confronting Threats
- Chapter 11 Do Immigration Tensions Fray the Safety Nets?
- Chapter 12 Pensions and the Curse of Long Life
- Chapter 13 Approaches to Public Pension Reform
- Chapter 14 Borrowing Social-Spending Lessons
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
Chapter 11 - Do Immigration Tensions Fray the Safety Nets?
from Part IV - Confronting Threats
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2021
- Making Social Spending Work
- Making Social Spending Work
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Appendices
- Part I Overview
- Part II The Long Rise, and Its Causes
- Part III What Effects?
- Part IV Confronting Threats
- Chapter 11 Do Immigration Tensions Fray the Safety Nets?
- Chapter 12 Pensions and the Curse of Long Life
- Chapter 13 Approaches to Public Pension Reform
- Chapter 14 Borrowing Social-Spending Lessons
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
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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- Making Social Spending Work , pp. 235 - 253Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021