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Shoring Up Economic Refugees : Venezuelan Migrants in the Ecuadorian Labor Market

Olivieri, Sergio - 2020

Ecuador has become the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans that left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10% of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap, analyzing a new large...

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The Impact of Refugee Crises on Host Labor Markets : The Case of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey

Akgündüz, Yusuf - 2015

influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees …. Nevertheless, the decline in internal in-migration is less than a tenth of the refugee influx, implying that there is little …

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Is Quick Formal Access to the Labor Market Enough? Refugees' Labor Market Integration in Belgium

Lens, Dries - 2018

for sustainable integration in the labor market. Additional education and labor market measures appear needed to enhance a … more durable integration …

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The Labor Market Impacts of Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Brazil

Shamsuddin, Mrittika; Acosta, Pablo A.; Schwengber, Rovane - 2022

As more and more Venezuelans leave their country, fleeing the economic and social crisis, the number of Venezuelans in Brazil has risen steadily since 2016, constituting about 18.6 percent of Brazil's 1.4 million refugee and migrant population as of October 2020. Past research finds that the...

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The Labor Market Integration of Syrian Refugees in Turkey

Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2022

Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to...

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The Labor Market Effects of Restricting Refugees' Employment Opportunities

Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023

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 this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous...

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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants : A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter - 2012

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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