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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024

This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative … employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted … overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …

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Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020

Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012222073

Occupational sorting and wage gaps of refugees

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020

Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employer-employee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012233550