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Table of Contents Aknowledgements VII 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Setting the Scene: the dissertation in context 1 1.2 A Reader’s Guide 6 2 The Political Economy of Immigration and Welfare State Effort: Evidence from Europe 11 Abstract 11 2.1 Introduction 12 2.2 Literature review and hypotheses 13 2.2.1 The theoretical relationship between immigration and the welfare state 13 2.2.2 The empirical relationship between immigration and the welfare state 14 2.2.3 Hypotheses 16 2.3 Research Design: Data and Methods 17 2.3.1 Dependent Variable: operationalising welfare state effort 17 2.3.2 Explanatory Variable 19 2.3.3 Control Variables 20 2.3.4 Method and Model Specification 21 2.4 Results and Discussion 23 2.4.1 Welfare State Effort 23 2.4.2 Sensitivity Analysis 26 2.5 Concluding Remarks 31 2.6 Appendix A – Supporting figures 33 2.7 Appendix B – Phillips-Perron test 36 3 The Devil Is in the Detail: Measuring Intra-EU Labour Migration 37 Abstract 37 3.1 Introduction 38 3.2 Exploring intra-EU labour migration 39 3.3 Current migration datasets 41 3.4 Limitations of current data on migration 42 3.4.1 Who is a migrant? 42 3.4.2 Stock versus flow measures of migration 44 3.4.3 Disaggregating migration statistics 45 3.5 The European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS): creating intra-EU labour migration indicators 46

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