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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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The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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