Welfare-Based Income Among Immigrants in the Netherlands: Differences in Social and Human Capital. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Renema, Jeanette A. J.; Lubbers, Marcel
• Is Part Of: Journal of immigrant & refugee studies. Volume 17:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 128
• Page End: 151
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Benefit dependency -- immigrant -- human capital -- social capital -- multinomial logistic regression -- Netherlands -- welfare-based income; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Refugees -- United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; Social work with immigrants -- United States -- Periodicals; 362.8753097305
• DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2017.1420276
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1556-2948

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study contributes to the structural migrants' integration literature with its focus on a wider understanding of welfare-based incomes among immigrants in the Netherlands. We examined whether immigrants' reliance on either unemploy-ment benefits, occupational disabilities benefits, or social assistance could be explained through human-capital and social-capital determinants. We found that this foremostly applies to social assistance–based incomes, presenting the relevance of disentangling various welfare schemes. We additionally proposed that more capital increases immigrants' knowledge about the welfare schemes' bureaucratic procedures and that under the condition of lacking employment more capital leads to higher chances for a welfare-based income, but we found little support for this explanation.