The Fiscal Cost of Refugee Immigration

The Example of Sweden

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4774291
AutoresJoakim Ruist (0000-0001-6970-9577, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Economics University of Gothenburg Sweden, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume41
Fascículo4
Páginas567-581
Data de publicação2015-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPopulation and Development Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1728-4457.2015.00085.x
OpenAlexW2202909490
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas22
Referências citadas8

The world currently has more refugees and internally displaced persons than it has had since World War II. Yet the readiness of many wealthy countries to provide asylum to these refugees is waning, and a major reason for this is the fiscal burden that would result from larger refugee intakes. To evaluate the size of this fiscal burden, this study estimates the net fiscal redistribution to the total refugee population in Sweden, the country with the largest per capita refugee immigration rate in the Western world since the early 1980s. The total redistribution in 2007 corresponds to 1.0 percent of Swedish GDP in that year. Four-fifths of the redistribution is due to lower public per capita revenues from refugees compared with the total population, and one-fifth to higher per capita public costs

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Immigration · Per capita · Political science · Politics · Population · Redistribution (election) · Refugee · Revenue · Sociology · Demography · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Health and Trauma · Migration, Refugees, and Integration