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The long and winding road : labour market integration of refugees in Norway

Hardoy, Inés; Zhang, Tao - 2019

Large waves of refugees have arrived in Europe on a regular basis in recent decades. We know little about the impact of … labour market policies intended to improve the labour market integration of refugees and their reunited family members. Using … refugees and their reunited families. We find no lock-in effects while the program is in process. On the contrary, program …

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Immigrants' effect on native workers : new analysis on longitudinal data

Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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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...

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The effect of social networks on migrants' labor market integration : a natural experiment

Gërxhani, Klarita; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020

. Our study addresses this selection-bias issue by using a unique natural-experimental dataset of refugees and other …

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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

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Refugee admissions and public safety : are refugee settlement areas more prone to crime?

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia; Pozo, Susan - 2018

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in … 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The possibility that refugees may commit acts of … for these fears? We exploit the variation in the geographic and temporal distribution of refugees across U.S. counties to …

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Determinants and dynamics of forced migration to Europe : evidence from a 3-D model of flows and stocks

Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; … - 2018

Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...

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Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? : evidence from a field experiment

Battisti, Michele; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …

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The impact of refugee crises on host labor markets : the case of the Syrian refugee crisis in Turkey

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Berg, Marcel van den; Hassink, … - 2015

where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees … evidence of refugees crowding out natives in local labor markets. …

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Managing refugee protection crises: policy lessons from economics and political science

Hangartner, Dominik; Sarvimäki, Matti; Spirig, Judith - 2021

We review and interpret research on the economic and political effects of receiving asylum seekers and refugees in … of the paper, we examine the consequences of receiving asylum seekers and refugees and identify two main findings. First …, the reception of refugees is unlikely to generate large direct economic effects. Both labor market and fiscal consequences …

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