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Nor can the duration of the residence permit be shortened simply because the immigrant claims welfare assistance.
Western Europe has already experienced three decades of indirect migration into the welfare state, as social benefits have created artificially high wages for the unskilled, simultaneously fueling excessive immigration and unemployment.
The directive on free movement implies a new era of direct migration into West European welfare states.
The result may be an erosion of these welfare states themselves.
As no West European state wants welfare immigration, and because they are unable to discriminate between nationals and EU immigrants, they will begin to reduce their services.
If the home country were to remain responsible for welfare services to non-working immigrants, the erosion of West European welfare states that the theory of systems competition predicts could be halted.
Free market critics, sensitive to the problem of excluding people from living a longer life simply because of their income, look to the welfare states of Northern Europe for guidance, because they do not use the price system to allocate healthcare.
But the welfare states' experience with extending life creates its own ethical problems that may be even more serious than those in more market-oriented societies.
Faced with bloated fiscal deficits, today's newly cost-conscious welfare states are economizing in the use of expensive life-extending technologies.
Indeed, because extending the lives of ill old people can be very costly, the economic incentives run in the opposite direction in the welfare state.
Economic considerations thus cannot help but play an important role in life or death medical decisions, though welfare state doctors are loathe to admit it.
Where welfare state medicine differs most from that in more market-oriented countries is that patients and their families often have little or no say in critical medical decisions that can profoundly affect their lives.
Europe's welfare states thus face a serious dilemma.
Such critics, however, forget that welfare state health systems practice an insidious form of unequal access, but one shrouded from view.
In the welfare state system, personal connections are just about the only way to get favored treatment.
And, given China’s economic structure, under-developed financial market, and weak welfare state, high levels of precautionary saving will persist for the foreseeable future.
These programs are designed to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the recipients’ actions.
Instead, Indian media today report recklessly on ephemera that have no impact on public welfare, and focus constantly on the superficial and the sensational.
In principle, with flexible labor markets, migration creates welfare gains for all countries.
Here migration will result in a welfare loss.
The best solution is to make Western labor markets flexible by opening the system of collective wage bargaining, dismantling labor market regulation, and reforming the welfare state.
If workfare replaces welfare, wages will become more flexible enabling EU labor markets to absorb immigrants more efficiently.
If immigrants gain welfare benefits in addition to wages, more will be lured into coming than necessary, and marginal migrants would create welfare losses for the EU equal to the benefits.
One way to curtail this problem is to delay full integration of immigrants into the welfare system of a host country for a few years-a reform advocated by the Scientific Advisory Committee to Germany's Federal Finance Ministry.
They could also receive the full contribution-financed social transfers that the welfare state provides.
Moreover, it would reduce the fiscal burden on taxpayers in immigration countries, thereby preventing a competitive dismantling of West European welfare states driven by the aim of warding off expensive immigration.
Partially delayed integration rather than transition periods or quotas is a market-oriented solution that can maintain Europe's welfare states and enable it to grow and develop to its true potential.
By contrast, rapid population growth in many poorer countries still poses a severe threat to human welfare.
Both increased longevity and falling fertility rates are hugely positive developments for human welfare.
Our celebrated welfare state will come under strain from an aging population.
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