Why Immigrants Manage to Grab More SocialBenefits? Empirical Cross - Country Analysis
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Immigration; European Union; social income.;All these keywords.
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- J6 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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