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Many unaccompanied children have applied for asylum during the last few years, especially in 2015. These children face special challenges and risk being exploited due to their age and legal status. In this paper we survey research and otherwise documented experiences regarding this group of...
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The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The...
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Following one of the largest displacements in human history, almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how the settlement location of migrants affected their economic, social and political integration in West Germany. We first document large...
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In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper...
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This study shows that in Sweden, contrary to other European countries, refugees have been disproportionately placed in … economic support given by the central government to municipalities that accept refugees are not sufficient to understand the …
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The continuing inflow of hundreds of thousands of refugees into many European countries has ignited much political … the early 1990s; and the exodus of refugees from the former Yugoslavia during the long series of Balkan wars between 1991 …
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This paper analyses labour market integration in Austria of non-European refugees originating from middle and low … unconditional gap between refugees and natives declines to 30 percentage points, similar to the one of non-humanitarian migrants …
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income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross …-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing … a small number of predictors currently available in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees registration …
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In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149227
-middle income countries host 65 percent of the world’s refugees, mostly in urban settings. Whereas refugee camps provide access to … refugees in host countries, the authors call on G20 to mobilize the private sector in developing sustainable solutions for the … integration of refugees around the world, and encourage its members and host communities to initiate startup visa programmes for …
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