@teadrinkingpolicy: Denmark actually worked out what every immigrant pays in and takes out. (2/3) 🍵 11 November 2026 In 2019, Western immigrants paid in about 7,000 euros more each. Refugees and their families cost about 14,000 euros. Taken together, immigrants paid in 3 billion kroner more than they took out; their children born in Denmark cost 19 billion, mostly because they're still young. In Sweden, refugees and their relatives have cost money in every single year since 1983, while the rest of the foreign born, including people who come to work, paid in 28 billion kronor in 2022. A Dutch study found labour migrants paid in about 125,000 euros each over a lifetime, while asylum migrants cost about 475,000. Why does a refugee cost so much more than someone who comes to work? Mostly, work. Only about 14% of refugees in Denmark have a job after their first year, and about 50% by their tenth. In Germany, 64% of the refugees who arrived in 2015 were in work 9 years later, but that's 76% of the men and only 35% of the women. Across Europe, men born outside the EU are 3 points behind native born men; women born outside the EU are on 59%, against 73%. Part of that is discrimination: with the same qualifications, a Turkish name with a headscarf in the photo got a callback only 4% of the time, against 19% for a German name. If non Western immigrants in Denmark had the same employment rate as Danes, they'd have paid in about 20 billion kroner more, enough to turn their 11 billion kroner cost into a surplus. This might be a controversial opinion, but the biggest win isn't at the border. It's getting the women who are already here into work. Follow Tea Drinking Policy, world news and politics explained over a cup of tea. Sources: Danish Ministry of Finance, Indvandreres nettobidrag 2019 (rev. Sept 2023) · Konjunkturinstitutet, Specialstudie 117, June 2025 · Van de Beek et al., Grenzeloze Verzorgingsstaat (2023 ed.) · IAB Kurzbericht 17/2025 · Eurostat, employment by country of birth, 2025 · Weichselbaumer, ILR Review, 2020 #immigration #denmark #refugees #europe #creatorsearchinsights

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