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We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...
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the host countries. Through a general literature review and examination of specific immigration countries, we provide …
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We evaluate a labor market integration program that fast-tracked asylum seekers into the Italian labor market through personalized job mentoring, placement assistance, and on-the-job training. Leveraging randomized assignment across reception centers and individual-level administrative records,...
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effects of different immigration and integration policies on the outcomes of refugee immigrants. In this article, we first … describe the Danish experience with refugee immigration over the past four decades. We then review different post …
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We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source … country, and attitudes to immigration in the host country. Of key interest are the implications for the optimal spending on … education in the source country and the optimal immigration quota of the host country. …
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This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the welfare of the native population in an economy that consists of … level. For a given skill endowment of the native population, we show that immigration reduces the welfare of the host … country up to a certain threshold and then increases it with further immigration. For the case of endogenous skill formation …
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suggests that, in general, the impact of immigration on labor market conditions depends critically on the way immigrants are …
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …’ skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual … norms and values strongly shape preferences over immigration, even when controlling for expected costs and benefits from … immigration. In particular, we find that altruistic attitudes significantly raise the support for all types of immigration while …
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immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …
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