This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in …, Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia. We find that the employment and earning trajectories of the selected non-economic migrant …

examine the political and economic factors in source countries that generate refugees and asylum seekers. Particular attention … policies in deterring asylum seekers. The paper concludes with an outline of the assimilation of refugees in host country …

This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …

This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees’ chances to … openings. We also find that the structure of the local economy affected the refugees’ probability of obtaining employment …

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …

Canada admits refugees on the basis of compassion and not economic criteria. It is however, important to document the … are that employed Canadian refugees earn an amount equal to that earned by their family class reference group circa 1980 …-2001. However, the incidence of social assistance attachment for refugees is substantial and for those refugees who receive any …

In this chapter, we investigate the effects of vulnerability on income and employment in Bosnia and Herzegovina … benchmark, the ex-ante and ex-post vulnerable Roma people, and the ex-ante equal but ex-post vulnerable refugees and internally … displaced people (RIDPs). Our findings reveal significant negative effects of vulnerability on income and employment. RIDPs seem …

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves. …