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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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refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …, language proficiency, health status, years since migration, and cohort effects explain the employment gap between the refugees …
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migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable … employment, the wage/earnings level and the education-occupation mismatch. By using a recently collected panel survey data in … labour market integration of refugees in the host country. The paper highlights the differentiated impacts of these resources …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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skilled and have high rates of employment, compared to Ecuadorians. However, their employment is of much lower quality … downgrading, relative to their employment prior to emigration. As a result, despite their high educational attainment, Venezuelans … that measures that allow Venezuelans to obtain employment that matches their skills, such as facilitating the conversion of …
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the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of … employment, specially among the female workers in Roraima. Focusing on the host community, the findings suggest that Venezuelan … influx led to increase in formal sector employment among the Brazilians, while the effect on both overall and native wages …
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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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influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables … on local economies. Our findings suggest that housing and to a lesser degree food prices increased, but employment rates …
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