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This paper analyses the labour market entry of refugees and other (non-humanitarian) migrants originating from middle …, similar to other migrants. Refugees and other migrants also found similar job types as their entry jobs, which tended to be … located in low-wage segments. The results, however, suggest that other migrants held their first job, on average, for a longer …
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This paper analyses the employment experiences of the recent wave of Middle Eastern refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran) in the Austrian job market. The emphasis in this research was to investigate whether refugees experienced an initial (sharp) downgrade in their occupational...
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-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour … unconditional gap between refugees and natives declines to 30 percentage points, similar to the one of non-humanitarian migrants …
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This paper analyses occupational trajectories of refugees from their last job in the home country to their first and current jobs in Austria and the role of co-ethnic and Austrian social networks in job search, using data from a large-scale survey of recognised refugees from Syria, Afghanistan,...
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While labour flows within the EU are substantial and growing, relatively little is known about what drives them or what conditions mobile workers face. This working paper describes the flows of working-age movers between EU Member States, addressing the question of who decides to move and...
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In this study, we evaluate the effectiveness of the participation of refugees in integration programmes intended to help them gain employment. The specific programmes considered are the Competence Check programme and the Integration Year programme that were introduced in Austria around the time...
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This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio-economic integration. Our identification strategy leverages the opening, closing, and gradual expansion of local language training centers in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random...
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