abstract: 'It is not only immigration and the incorporation of immigrants into

  society that serve as challenges for post-industrialised countries, but

  also rising inequality and poverty. This article focuses on both issues

  and proposes a new theoretical perspective on the determinants of

  immigrant poverty. Building on comparative welfare state research and

  international migration literature, I argue that immigrants'' social

  rights - here understood as their access to paid employment and welfare

  benefits - condition the impact which both the labour market and welfare

  system have on immigrants'' poverty. The empirical analysis is based on a

  newly collected dataset on immigrants'' social rights in 19 advanced

  industrialised countries. The findings confirm the hypotheses: more

  regulated minimum wage setting institutions and generous traditional

  family programmes reduce immigrants'' poverty more strongly in countries

  where they are granted easier access to paid employment and social

  benefits.'
affiliation: 'Eugster, B (Corresponding Author), Univ Bern, Inst Commun \& Media Studies,
  Fabrikstr 8, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.

  Eugster, Beatrice, Univ Bern, Bern, Switzerland.'
author: Eugster, Beatrice
author-email: beatrice.eugster@ikmb.unibe.ch
author_list:
- family: Eugster
  given: Beatrice
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0958928717753580
eissn: 1461-7269
files: []
issn: 0958-9287
journal: JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN SOCIAL POLICY
keywords: 'Comparative welfare state research; immigrants; multilevel analysis;

  poverty; social rights'
keywords-plus: 'FAMILY POLICIES; WELFARE STATES; INSTITUTIONS; EUROPE; CITIZENSHIP;

  EMPLOYMENT; DISCRIMINATION; INEQUALITY; PARADOX; GENDER'
language: English
month: DEC
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '72'
orcid-numbers: Eugster, Beatrice/0000-0002-5272-7119
pages: 452-470
papis_id: 353d2de62a47e6aa2fcd1fbd9d1ae3a4
ref: Eugster2018immigrantspoverty
times-cited: '13'
title: Immigrants and poverty, and conditionality of immigrants' social rights
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000449289100002
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '29'
volume: '28'
web-of-science-categories: Public Administration; Social Issues
year: '2018'