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-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …
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for labor migrants and refugees relative to family migrants, for men and individuals below the median age, and for …
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We study the social integration of ethnic minority children in the context of an early childhood program conducted in Turkey aimed at preparing 5-year-old native and Syrian refugee children for primary school. We randomly assign children to groups with varying ethnic composition and find that...
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facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the …
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establishment of refugees and their family. From December 1, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of … newly‐arrived refugees from the municipalities to the government funded Public Employment Service through which those … employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the outcomes of the Treatment group, which took …
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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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, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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The share of the foreign-born in OECD countries is increasing, and this article summarizes economics research on the effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political economy of immigration, and...
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the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees … traumatic experiences of refugees interacted with time as an instrument for refugee mental health. We find that worse mental … employment by 14.1% and labor income by 26.8%. We also find some evidence of adverse impacts of refugees' mental illness on their …
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A minority of applicants for asylum in Europe gain some form of recognition as refugees, and this has been a …
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