Life cycle surplus and life cycle deficit of immigrants versus natives

Tofoska Apostolova, Persida Cica (author), Istenič, Tanja (author), Sambt, Jože (author)

Recently, immigration and its socio-economic aspects have been in the centre of the European Union leaders’ agenda. In this paper, we apply the National Transfer Accounts (NTA) methodology to calculate the complete set of NTA results for immigrants and natives in five EU countries. We find that due to the lower labour income, which cannot be offset by the lower consumption, immigrants experience a shorter independence period and a much lower aggregate life cycle surplus than natives. The identified cross country differences between immigrants and natives could be used as a proxy of the achieved level of integration of immigrants.

• Language: English
• Keywords: EU, immigrations, demography, national transfer accounts, immigrants, EU countries, economic independence, life cycle deficit financing
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: EF - School of Economics and Business
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 36-51
• Numbering: Vol. 24, iss. 1 (art. 3)
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-136008
• UDC: 314
• ISSN on article: 2335-4216
• DOI: 10.15458/2335-4216.1296
• COBISS.SI-ID: 101725955
• Publication date in RUL: 06.04.2022

TOFOSKA APOSTOLOVA, Persida Cica, ISTENIČ, Tanja and SAMBT, Jože, 2022, Life cycle surplus and life cycle deficit of immigrants versus natives. Economic and business review [online]. 2022. Vol. 24, no. 1 ( 3), p. 36–51. [Accessed 5 April 2025]. DOI 10.15458/2335-4216.1296. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=136008

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• Title: Economic and business review
• Publisher: Ekonomska fakulteta
• ISSN: 2335-4216
• COBISS.SI-ID: 268649216

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• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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• Licensing start date: 17.03.2022

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: EU, imigracije, demografija

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: FP7
• Project number: 613247
• Name: Ageing Europe: An application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public finances
• Acronym: AGENTA

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Funding programme: Raziskovalni program
• Project number: P5-0128
• Name: Izzivi vključujočega in trajnostnega razvoja v prevladujoči paradigmi ekonomskih in poslovnih znanosti