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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK
Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018
the experiences of child refugees and asylum seekers, less is documented about the experiences of former unaccompanied … role of education in creating socioeconomic opportunities, and show how unresolved immigration status detracts from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873867
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In praise of snapshots
Kanbur, Ravi - 2019
The conventional justification for moving from income distribution to intergenerational mobility analysis is that the movie encompasses the snapshot and is normatively superior as the basis for assessing policy. Such a perspective underpins many an argument for shifting the focus from income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012109883
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Is the education of local children influenced by living nearby a refugee camp? : evidence from host communities in Rwanda
Bilgili, Özge; Fransen, Sonja; Loschmann, Craig; … - 2018
children are influenced by the presence of a refugee camp in or around their community. Taking the case of Congolese refugees … views regarding the effects of refugees on local education. These results contribute to the body of literature on the … effects of refugees on host communities and inform policies on how refugees need not be a "burden" if long-term investments …
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Polling during war : challenges and lessons from Ukraine
Rickard, Kit; Toal, Gerard; Bakke, Kristin M.; … - 2023
Collecting public opinion data is challenging in the shadow of war. And yet accurate public opinion is crucial. Political elites rely on it and often attempt to influence it. Therefore, it is incumbent on researchers to provide independent and reliable wartime polls. However, surveying in...
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Securitized reception : revisiting contexts confronting Afghan and Vietnamese forced migrants
Su, Phi Hong; Hakimi, Hameed - 2021
In a 2017 UNU-WIDER project, 'Forced migration and inequality', one of us collaborated on a comparison of Afghan and Vietnamese refugee resettlement across four Western countries. In the light of the Taliban return to power in August 2021, we revisit the contributions of the Journal of Ethnic...
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Invisible, successful, and divided : Vietnamese in Germany since the late 1970s
Bösch, Frank; Su, Phi Hong - 2018
, in particular, had not yet been confronted with non-European refugees. This changed after 1978 with the influx of around … offers a strategic case for understanding factors that shaped the arrival and resettlement experiences of Vietnamese refugees … not be uniformly positive for immigrants and refugees to have an integration experience deemed successful. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789051
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Forced migration, aid effectiveness, and the humanitarian-development nexus : the case of Germany's P4P programme
Leiderer, Stefan; Roxin, Helge - 2023
context of forced migration to neighbouring countries of a given conflict. For the context of host countries of refugees in a …-term perspectives for refugees. These policies in turn need to be embedded in reliable rules (polity) and negotiation processes …
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Dynastic measures of inter-generational mobility with empirical evidence from Indonesia
Bargain, Olivier; Lo Bue, Maria C.; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2021
We suggest a simple and flexible criterion to assess inter-generational mobility. It accommodates different types of outcomes (continuous outcomes such as potential earnings, or discrete ones such as education groups) and captures dynastic improvements of such outcomes at different points of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012509834
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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile
Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021
Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012483436
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Informality and work status
Fields, Gary S. - 2020
The most important determinant of households' livelihoods is how much they earn for their labour. People in informal work are more likely to be low earners, to live in poverty, and to make fewer transitions into the higher-paying work statuses. The paper is divided into three main sections: what...
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