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The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a useful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dortmund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...
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Today's world is characterized by globalization and international mobility, yet most democratic participation rights are still tied to traditional forms of citizenship. As a consequence, non-citizen are the largest group without franchise. We examine how citizens evaluate and react to the...
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In this work we simulate the effects of tax autonomy of the Austrian states on the levels of public employment in each state. We show that depending on the strength of the public sector lobby, tax autonomy would require reduction of employment in the public sector between 25% and 35% of the...
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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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This paper analyses labour market integration in Austria of non-European refugees originating from middle and low …-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour … market careers of all individuals residing in Austria. We control for macro level explanatory variables (e.g. the labour …
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This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups … the wage difference between immigrants and natives in Austria can be to a large extent explained. Furthermore, we account …
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This paper analyses the labour market entry of refugees and other (non-humanitarian) migrants originating from middle …- and low-income non-European countries that arrived in Austria in 2014-2016. Specifically, we analyse factors that shaped … and explore job stability in Austria. Even though refugees took longer to find a job, individual and household …
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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, Iraq and Iran who have predominantly come to Austria since 2010 …
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