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WORKING PAPERS Luxembourg’s corporatist Scandinavian welfare system and incorporation of migrants Claudia HARTMANN-HIRSCH Working Paper No 2011-29 March 2011 CEPS/INSTEAD Working Papers are intended to make research findings available and stimulate comments and discussion. They have been approved for circulation but are to be considered preliminary. They have not been edited and have not been subject to any peer review. The views expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect views of CEPS/INSTEAD. Errors and omissions are the sole responsibility of the author(s). Luxembourg’s corporatist Scandinavian welfare system and incorporation of migrants Claudia HARTMANN-HIRSCH CEPS/INSTEAD, Differdange March 2011 Abstract Luxembourg is the EU and OECD member state (MS) with a permanently increasing immigra- tion and the highest share of immigrants and cross border commuters within the labour force and more so within the competitive sector. Luxembourg has a typical Bismarckian corporatist welfare system, which has developed a gener- ous and broad welfare regime over the last 100 years with a further important push during the last two decades. Since then, benefits offered muted steadily to middle class standards and providers were merged to universalistic national bodies, leaving behind the different former corporatist providers. Due to a higher dependency on welfare benefits due to the economic downturn, nearly all MS mo