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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 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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. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a unique natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other …
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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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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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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in … intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual taxation records. The 2007 Swedish Register Data includes information on …-sex-schooling-place of birth cohorts looking specifically at non-economic (family reunion and refugee intake) immigrants from Iran, Iraq …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working ….5% for first- and second-generation immigrants, respectively. However, controlling for a wide range of observables (e.g. age … first-generation immigrants born in developing countries still experience a sizeable adjusted wage gap (2.7%), there is no …
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