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Ethnic networks and the employment of asylum seekers : evidence from Germany
Stips, Felix; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159136
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To work or to study? : postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment
Damelang, Andreas; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020
a decision process among refugees in Germany and examine the determinants of investment decisions into host country …-specific credentials such as vocational education. The choice experiment was introduced in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (2020), a … representative longitudinal survey of recently arrived refugees in Germany. We find that refugees' probability of investing in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306699
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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111106
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Language training and refugees' integration
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Bolvig, Iben; Foged, Mette; … - 2021
We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after January 1, 1999. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design we find a significant, permanent, positive effect on earnings. This effect emerged after completion of language classes...
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Access to language training and the local integration of refugees
Foged, Mette; Van der Werf, Cynthia - 2023
This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language … training center. First, we show that refugees' distance from the assigned language training center is as good as random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250547
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Access to language training and the local integration of refugees
Foged, Mette; Van der Werf, Cynthia - 2023
This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language … training center. First, we show that refugees' distance from the assigned language training center is as good as random …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014460479
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Getting Asylum Seekers into Employment‘? – Ein Allheilmittel Für Die Europäische Einwanderungspolitik? (Getting Asylum Seekers into Employment‘? – A Panacea for European Immigratio...
Tausch, Arno - 2013
The cross-national empirics of the international asylum system are in their infancy. While Hatton, 2009, and Neumayer, 2005, 2006a and 2006b provided important and valuable cross-national insights on the drivers of the asylum seeking process, as yet little is known in terms of hard-core evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166494
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Various domains of integration of refugees and their interrelationships : a study of recent refugee inflows in Austria
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2019
refugees in Austria, namely labour market integration and social integration. While labour market integration is captured in … built on the basis of a survey of about 1,600 refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran who had come to Austria since …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153916
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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success
Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862884
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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success
Battisti, Michele - 2018
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914677