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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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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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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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The break-ups of the former Soviet Union and Yugoslavia were accompanied by some of the worst military conflicts in modern history, claiming lives of thousands of people and forcibly displacing millions. We study how people displaced by war and conflict within these countries fare on the labour...
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other countries. In this paper we study the labour market situation in terms of employment and income for those who have …
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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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paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
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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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