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the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of …
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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 assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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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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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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The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...
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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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In this paper, we use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across … several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently … and destination country. Refugees are 11.6 percent less likely to have a job and 22.1 percent more likely to be unemployed …
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years of employment restrictions together with individual data for refugees entering European countries between 1985 and …. These effects are not mechanical, since we exclude refugees who may still be subject to employment restrictions, are non … concentrated among less educated refugees, translate into lower occupational quality, and seem not to be driven by selective …
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This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … market and economic sector factors on the refugees' odds of being employed. The local variations of refugees' integration … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees' chances to …
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