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The group are looking at welfare, migration, benefit and the road to the 2015 election.
Shipman records the six pledges Mandelson wanted Cameron to announce: new money for areas affected by high immigration; a law to prevent wages being undercut by EU migrants; a new move to get the EU to cut welfare migration; agreement with France and Germany to review free movement; a cross-party review of immigration; and an affordable housing programme, with new arrivals excluded.
Introducing different migration regimes, they show why "welfare migration" should only prevail in common labor markets without mobility restrictions.
Section 2 gives an overview of the literature on "welfare migration" and the effects of networks and institutional restrictions on individual migration decisions.
Kvist ([2004]) drew less drastic conclusions by arguing that the effects of "welfare migration" are too small to directly affect the decision-making process on the national level.
Despite the potential for large effects, she concludes that welfare migration is probably not substantial given small existing cross-border differentials.
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Using a sample of single men without dependents in Norway, Fiva (2009) finds that after addressing welfare policy endogeneity due to cross-county welfare competition, the costs of benefit migration are significant.
However, thanks to the generosity of Europe's welfare states, migration is also a sort of tax on immobile labour.
Mr Cameron has said he wants to change welfare and migration rules, and it has previously been reported that workers' rights enshrined in European Union law could be the target of new opt-outs.
11The Welfare and migration commission was appointed by the Norwegian government to assess the Norwegian welfare state's robustness with respect to the opening of labor markets and other aspects of internationalization/globalization.
The paper reviews the literature on welfare and migration, introduces a theoretical framework based on a metropolitan labour market and then tests several hypotheses about the possible effects of benefits cuts on spatial adjustment.
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