Reducing welfare benefits for refugees and immigrants is largely ineffective for increasing employment and promoting integration, and instead leads to poverty, ‘survival crime’ and less schooling, according to a new study from CReAM's Christian Dustmann and co-authors from the Rockwool Foundation.
Research by Christian Dustmann and Thomas Cornelissen finds that boys from disadvantaged backgrounds benefit most from early schooling, helping to narrow the skills gap (60-80%) with boys from high socio-economic backgrounds.
CReAM Research by Christian Dustmann and co-authors finds that changes in housing expenditures dramatically exacerbated the rise in income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s. The research was covered on the German press.
Attending universal childcare from age three significantly improves the school readiness of children from immigrant and disadvantaged family backgrounds.
Christian Dustmann discussing Theresa May's comments on EU workers 'jumping the queue' on BBC Three Counties.
Email: s.piyapromdee@ucl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 5801 |
Suphanit Piyapromdee Suphanit is a lecturer in the Department of Economics at University College London. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2014. |
