Population Research and Policy Review
Volume 30, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 661-676

From Rags to Riches? Immigration and Poverty in Spain (Article)

de Bustillo R.M. , Antón J.-I.*
  • a Department of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca, Facultad de Derecho, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, s/n., 37007 Salamanca, Spain
  • b Department of Applied Economics, University of Salamanca, Facultad de Derecho, Campus Miguel de Unamuno, s/n., 37007 Salamanca, Spain

Abstract

This article for first time explores the relationship between immigration and poverty in Spain. Using recent Spanish household surveys, it is found, first, that both moderate and severe poverty are more acute among immigrants than among nationals and social transfers play no substantial role in reducing monetary deprivation in the case of foreign-born population; in the second place, we perform an econometric analysis that shows that the different poverty risk faced by local and immigrant households is not driven by differences in basic household and demographic characteristics. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

Author Keywords

Immigration Spain poverty

Index Keywords

Spain demographic survey poverty econometrics socioeconomic conditions immigration household survey Riches
Link
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DOI: 10.1007/s11113-011-9205-6
ISSN: 01675923
Cited by: 12
Original Language: English