I examine the effect of English language proficiency on the occupational choices of childhood immigrants into the …'s superior language acquisition abilities to estimate the causal effect of English language skills on immigrants' choice of … immigrants to work in more lucrative occupations. In addition, a better grasp of the English language leads immigrants to choose …

discrimination, more asylum centres close to areas of conflict, and more attention to education and training in areas where refugees … selectively managed immigration from outside the EU, more attention to integration of immigrants, more rooting out of … tensions in actual and perceived values between immigrants and native populations. These divisions affect not only the first …

Contracts for the Reception and Integration of Refugees (CTAIR); · Resolving information and evaluation asymmetries: Vienna …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …

result of actual improvements in English language speaking abilities, we show that low-skilled immigrants in trade …This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language … fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the production-based manufacturing jobs lost in …

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 …, and it is here tested using data from two survey waves of recent refugees in the Austrian labour market. The paper also …

wiiw publishes a detailed study on occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch of the recent wave of refugees from … on two waves of an extensive survey of refugees conducted between December 2017 and May 2019, comprising 1,600 and 2 … trajectories of female refugees differ from those of their male counterparts in that they experience a steeper occupational …

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 …Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far …

As the refugee crisis deepens and more migrants and refugees arrive each day, political policies and economic … states in registering, categorizing, and providing refugees and migrants with adequate access to healthcare, education and …

We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after … effect emerged after completion of language classes and was accompanied by additional schooling and higher probability of … working in communication-intensive jobs, suggesting that language training, rather than other minor aspects of the reform …