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This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who …
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examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants - refugees and economic immigrants - in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …
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practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …
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Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of...
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Empirically identifying the causal effect of social networks on migrants' economic prospects is a challenging task due … to the non-random residential sorting of migrants into locations with greater opportunities for (previous) connections …. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a unique natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other …
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discrimination, more asylum centres close to areas of conflict, and more attention to education and training in areas where refugees … large-scale waves of refugees wanting to enter the EU, resulting from conflicts, natural catastrophes, and other sudden or … violent events. We propose screening schemes for refugee camps surrounding countries they have fled to determine migrants …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education … and other migrants. The result confirms that refugees and other migrants are less likely to be employed than natives and …
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This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … market and economic sector factors on the refugees' odds of being employed. The local variations of refugees' integration … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees' chances to …
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and the determinants of these sentiments is presented. Natives in countries that receive predominantly refugee migrants …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …
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