%0 Journal Article
%T Immigrants and poverty, and conditionality of immigrantsĄŻ social rights
%A Beatrice Eugster
%J Journal of European Social Policy
%@ 1461-7269
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0958928717753580
%X 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 immigrantsĄŻ social rights ¨C here understood as their access to paid employment and welfare benefits ¨C condition the impact which both the labour market and welfare system have on immigrantsĄŻ poverty. The empirical analysis is based on a newly collected dataset on immigrantsĄŻ social rights in 19 advanced industrialised countries. The findings confirm the hypotheses: more regulated minimum wage setting institutions and generous traditional family programmes reduce immigrantsĄŻ poverty more strongly in countries where they are granted easier access to paid employment and social benefits
%K Comparative welfare state research
%K immigrants
%K multilevel analysis
%K poverty
%K social rights
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0958928717753580