Luxembourg's Corporatist Scandinavian Welfare System an Incorporation of Migrants

Of the EU and OECD member states (MS), Luxembourg has the highest share of immigrants within the resident population, within the labour force and more so within the competitive sector. It has a long-standing tradition with immigrants, beginning at the end of the nineteenth century. It implemented a clear immigration policy aiming at the arrival of Europeans. Furthermore, it developed since then a policy attracting at the same time highly qualified immigrants and foreign economic decision-makers from the Northern hemisphere as well as poorly qualified manual workers from the Southern regions of Europe (Italy, Portugal and the former Republic of Yugoslavia) (...)