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Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
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This paper examines whether the presence of refugees alters the intra-household allocation of tasks across genders in … arrival of refugees and the additional competition for natural resources such as wood and water. However, the results differ …
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where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees … evidence of refugees crowding out natives in local labor markets. …
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. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a unique natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other …
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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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background of the large-scale influx of refugees into Germany between 2015 and 2016, this paper uses data from a unique and … concerns about refugees with those about EU migrants. We propose several hypotheses regarding egotropic and sociotropic motives …
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background of the large-scale influx of refugees into Germany between 2015 and 2016, this paper uses data from a unique and … concerns about refugees with those about EU migrants and propose several hypotheses. Our findings indicate that: (i …
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Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at … sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to examine a rich set of labor market outcomes. We find that the … the fact that refugees’ formal employment is much lower. Even after accounting for the covariates, refugee men’s formal …
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Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at … sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to examine a rich set of labor market outcomes. We find that the … the fact that refugees' formal employment is much lower. Even after accounting for the covariates, refugee men's formal …
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We evaluate a labor market integration program that fast-tracked asylum seekers into the Italian labor market through personalized job mentoring, placement assistance, and on-the-job training. Leveraging randomized assignment across reception centers and individual-level administrative records,...
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