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examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes …
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where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees … evidence of refugees crowding out natives in local labor markets. …
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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 … history models to compare refugees' entry into and exit out of the first employment, contrasting their outcomes with family …
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Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of...
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The recent so called Mediterranean refugee crisis has ignited concerns about the magnitude of the flows of asylum seekers to Europe. This paper examines the determinants of the destination choice of first time non-EU asylum applicants to the EU, between 2008-2020. It investigates the role played...
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Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at … sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to examine a rich set of labor market outcomes. We find that the … the fact that refugees' formal employment is much lower. Even after accounting for the covariates, refugee men's formal …
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We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees … were resettled in the United States between 2005 and 2010. We address threats to identification due to sorting of refugees … into specific labor markets and to strategic placement by resettlement agencies. We find that the probability that refugees …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …
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first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite …
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