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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 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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and the determinants of these sentiments is presented. Natives in countries that receive predominantly refugee migrants …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …
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In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of …
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Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when forced to leave their homelands and settle within...
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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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Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of...
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examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …
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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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characteristics that display substantial differences between natives and refugees, the gaps in birthweight and age-adjusted height …
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