Search Results - subject:"work permits"

From Exodus to Employment: Labor Market Transitions and the Role of Work Permits in Colombia

García-Suaza, Andres; Mondragón-Mayo, Angie; … - 2025

The Venezuelan migration crisis has led to large-scale displacement, with over 2.5 million Venezuelans seeking refuge in Colombia. This study assesses the impact of the PEP on labor market outcomes for Venezuelan migrants. Using data from the EPM survey and a difference-in-differences...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015387052

Work permits for refugees as social protection during polycrises: Evidence from refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Stojetz, Wolfgang; Ronzani, Piero; Fenzl, Sarah; … - 2024

Commissioner for Refugees just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyse the economic impacts of granting work permits to … Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Based on robust matching estimation, we show that during the pandemic, work permits … polycrisis. Restricting access to work permits - for example, by raising their price - does not appear to be a convincing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015209968

Work permits for refugees as social protection during polycrises : evidence from refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Stojetz, Wolfgang; Ronzani, Piero; Fenzl, Sarah; … - 2024

Commissioner for Refugees just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyse the economic impacts of granting work permits to … Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan. Based on robust matching estimation, we show that during the pandemic, work permits … polycrisis. Restricting access to work permits⎯for example, by raising their price⎯does not appear to be a convincing strategy to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015168582

The missing market for work permits

Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin - 2019

-bound work permits. The market would no longer be missing. This paper formulates and studies this policy proposal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114367

Relative Supply and Demand for Skills in Switzerland

Puhani, Patrick A. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 141 (2005) IV, pp. 555-584

Whereas Anglo-Saxon economies have recently experienced a widening wage distribution between skill groups, the Swiss wage structure has remained almost stable. This raises the question whether the Swiss labour market did not experience a decrease in the relative demand for low-skilled workers as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005148743

The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low skilled...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262112