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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - 2018
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/10011806368
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Mapping experiences and research about unaccompanied refugee minors in Sweden and other countries
Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523168
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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 155 (2019) 17, pp. 1-15
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/10012138005
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Estimating poverty for refugee populations : can cross-survey imputation methods substitute for data scarcity?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Verme, Paolo - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140318
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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - 2019
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
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Settlement location shapes refugee integration : evidence from post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja - 2019
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133397
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Employment gaps between refugees, migrants and natives : evidence from Austrian Register based labour market data
Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; … - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153921
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(The struggle for) refugee integration into the labour market : evidence from Europe
Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; Minale, Luigi - 2018
In this paper, we use repeated cross-sectional survey data to study the labour market performance of refugees across … several EU countries and over time. In the first part, we document that labour market outcomes for refugees are consistently … and destination country. Refugees are 11.6 percent less likely to have a job and 22.1 percent more likely to be unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798172
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Employment effects of immigration to Germany in the period of migration policy liberalization, 2005-2018
Erol, Isil; Unal, Umut - 2021
Germany has undergone a significant migration policy shift since the early 2000s. This paper examines the total employment effect of immigration during the liberalization of migration policies from 2005 to 2018 using a spatial approach. A set of methods, along with static and dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543177
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Labor market integration of low-educated refugees : RCT evidence from an ambitious integration program in Sweden
Dahlberg, Matz; Egebark, Johan; Vikman, Ulrika; Özcan, … - 2020
program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318415