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refugees on employment of men is negative for the least developed regions, it is positive for highly developed regions. Our …We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting … areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees across regions and countries. For this …
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. Despite the massive size of the migrant influx, no adverse effects on the average wages of men or women or on total employment … of men are observed. For women, however, total employment falls - which results mainly from the elimination of part … effects on complementary workers in the formal sector. We estimate about one-to-one replacement in employment for native men …
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this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …
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other countries. In this paper we study the labour market situation in terms of employment and income for those who have …
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the fact that refugees' formal employment is much lower. Even after accounting for the covariates, refugee men's formal … people. Moreover, the native-refugee gap in employment widens for more educated refugees. Finally, accounting for the … differences in covariates, the native-refugee gap in men's employment vanishes for Turkish-speaking refugees but persists for …
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
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-national networks on formal labor market access of asylum seekers. While the individual employment probability is not linked to network …
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We investigate the impact of female employment on intimate partner violence by exploiting the differential arrivals of … Syrian refugees across Turkish provinces as an exogenous labor market shock. By employing a distance-based instrument, we … find that refugee inflows caused a decline in female employment with no significant impact on male employment. This decline …
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history models to compare refugees' entry into and exit out of the first employment, contrasting their outcomes with family …This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has … offered relatively easy formal labor market access to refugees but they face many other barriers in its strongly regulated and …
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The share of the foreign-born in OECD countries is increasing, and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political economy of immigration, and...
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