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Various domains of integration of refugees and their interrelationships : a study of recent refugee inflows in Austria

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2019

This paper addresses the complexity of, and the interrelationships between, two important aspects of integration of … refugees in Austria, namely labour market integration and social integration. While labour market integration is captured in … terms of being employed as compared to being unemployed or inactive, social integration distinguishes between social …

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Youth unemployment challenges in mining areas of Ghana

Sarfo-Mensah, P.; Adjaloo, M. K.; Donkor, P. - 2009

Ghana, like the rest of West Africa is experiencing tremendous human migration both internally and across international boundaries. Rural-urban migration has assumed uncontrollable dimensions in the sub-region and the social consequences have become major development challenge. In Ghana the...

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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The high outward mobility that has characterised the countries in the Western Balkan (WB) region over the past three decades is often seen as tightly linked to severe labour market imbalances and persistently low utilisation of human capital over time. To shed light on these issues, we estimate...

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Heterogeneous labor impacts of migration across skill groups : the case of Costa Rica

Blyde, Juan S. - 2020

Popular empirical strategies that examine the labor impacts of migrants, like the skill-cell approach, are frequently used to measure the effects of immigrants from a particular skill group on native-born workers with similar skills. I use an augmented version of the skill-cell approach to...

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Wages, Amenities and Negative Attitudes

Waisman, Gisela; Larsen, Birthe - 2012

We exploit the regional variation in negative attitudes towards immigrants to Sweden in order to analyse the consequences of the attitudes on immigrants welfare. We find that attitudes towards immigrants are of importance: they both affect their labour market outcomes and their quality of life....

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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill

Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - 2012

We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector...

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Labour Market Performance Effects of Discrimination and Loss of Skill. Extended version

Larsen, Birthe; Waisman, Gisela - 2015

We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012142379

Should I Stay or Must I Go? Temporary Protection and Refugee Outcomes

Kilström, Matilda; Larsen, Birthe; Olme, Elisabet - 2018

We study a Danish reform in 2002 that lowered the ex ante probability of refugees receiving permanent residency by prolonging the time period before they were eligible to apply for permanent residency. Assignment to the new rules was completely determined by the date of the asylum application...

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Refugees' integration into the Austrian labour market : dynamics of occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch

Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2020

issues of refugees' mental state and their degree of social integration with the host population. …

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Employment gaps between refugees, migrants and natives : evidence from Austrian Register based labour market data

Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; … - 2019

This paper analyses labour market integration in Austria of non-European refugees originating from middle and low …

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