The Migrant Social Protection Data Set (MigSP). Technical Report

The Migrant Social Protection (MigSP) Dataset provides a set of quantitative comparative measures of de jure immigrant welfare rights in regard to unemployment insurance and social assistance benefits in 39 countries in Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania and Southeast Asia for the years 1980-2018. This Technical Report outlines the conceptualization and operationalization of immigrant welfare rights, details the data collection and presents the codebook for the data. MigSP builds on data that was collected within the remit of the Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC) project (Helbling et al., 2017; Römer, 2017).