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Integration Through Incentives

Securing Participation and Inclusion of Newly Arrived Third Country Nationals

Jan-Paul Brekke

Serie: Papter presented at the EU Expert Meeting, Swedish Presidency, Malmø December 2009.

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Incentives

Integration and participation of immigrants is in the interest both of the individuals and their host societies. There is a constant search among politicians, bureaucrats and researchers for finding the optimal way of securing inclusion.

One way of guiding behavior in direction of integration is to create incentives. Lately there has been an increased focus on policies that direct both individuals and systems towards the goal of equal opportunity, equal participation and loyalty. Several EU Member States have come to see integration and the failure of such as caused by systematic encouragement and discouragement of behavior. In this paper the concept of incentive and its relevance is discussed.