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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring … countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European … countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). This is likely to dominate migration flows into the EU …

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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees

Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018

Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...

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On the economics and politics of refugee migration

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …

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The impact of natives' attitudes towards immigrants on their integration in the host country

Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts are...

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Refugee migration and the labor market : lessons from 40 years of post-arrival policies in Denmark

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2022

Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...

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Refugees' integration into the Austrian labour market : dynamics of occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch

Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2020

the jobs they currently held. This U-shaped pattern of occupational trajectories is familiar in the migration literature …

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Migration policy : lessons from cooperatives

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation certificate. In exchange, the immigrants may enter the country of choice without danger. The revenue goes to the country of the recipient nation rather than to human smugglers....

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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment

Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success

Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....

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Employment gaps between refugees, migrants and natives : evidence from Austrian Register based labour market data

Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; … - 2019

This paper analyses labour market integration in Austria of non-European refugees originating from middle and low income countries for the period 2009-2018. We assess their probability of being employed in comparison to non-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We...

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