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the steep influx of Syrian refugees into Jordan on the country's labor market since the onset of the conflict in Syria …, Jordan, Iraq, and Turkey), according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Jordan and Lebanon are … participation, the number of refugees, and economic activity at the level of governorates. The Vector Autoregressive (VAR …
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Jordan. Using a simple sharing experiment, we find only little discrimination. Among the Jordanian children, however, we see … that those who descended from Palestinian refugees do not discriminate at all, suggesting that a family history of refugee … status can generate solidarity with new refugees. We also find that parents' narratives about the refugee crisis are …
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. The identification comes from the regional variation in the large influx of Syrian refugees to Jordan in the wake of the … Syrian conflict which started in 2011. Combining detailed household-level surveys with information on where Syrian refugees … refugees, and this could have acted as a channel through which housing quality decreased and may have attenuated the impact on …
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In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...
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This paper studies ethnic discrimination in Germany's labour market with a correspondence test. To each of 528 advertisements for student internships we send two similar applications, one with a Turkish-sounding and one with a German-sounding name. A German name raises the average probability of...
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Finding a job requires effective search skills to engage successfully with employers with vacancies. In a field experiment, we test a website that supplements such search skills by providing editable resume and cover letter templates as well as tips on how to look and apply for jobs. Exposure to...
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We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much of the evidence based on observational data. Some applicants only show...
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We evaluate the efficiency of video resumes using a large scale field experiment. We randomly sent applications to 2021 private firms posting vacancies across the province of Québec (Canada). A subset of these applications included a link inviting firms to view a video resume. We find that...
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Empirically, not much is known about the mechanisms how labor market programs like job search assistance and training operate to support finding a job. This paper provides novel evidence to open the "blackbox": it causally links the program interventions to the dynamics of search behavior,...
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We conduct a large-scale field experiment in the German labor market to investigate how information provision affects job seekers' employment prospects and labor market outcomes. Individuals assigned to the treatment group of our experiment received a brochure that informed them about job search...
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