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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 … and other migrants. The result confirms that refugees and other migrants are less likely to be employed than natives and …
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migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable … labour market integration of refugees in the host country. The paper highlights the differentiated impacts of these resources … on the refugees’ outcomes at six months and one year after arrival. …
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differential demand shock induced by refugees' consumption of culturally similar goods and services. However, the unemployment … effects dissipated starting in 2016, coinciding with refugees' delayed yet incremental labor market integration. We also … to arriving refugees. Our results suggest that TMENA immigrants' assimilation of German identity was unaffected by the …
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This article assesses the impact of immigrant and asylum seeker in ows on the size of the informal sector in host countries from a macroeconomic perspective. We use two indicators of informality provided by Medina and Schneider (2019) and Elgin and Oztunali (2012) combined with migration data...
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religious affiliation plays a more dominant role than the Indian nationality affiliation in the identity of refugees. Further …
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sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among … those are measures to support the early integration of migrants into the educational systems and in the labor markets …
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In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper...
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experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large … exposure in both, the origin country and the destination region. Moreover, French (Italian) exposed refugees only benefit from …
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This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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