Asylum seekers migrating to Germany remains a hotly debated topic. The second wave of a longitudinal survey of refugees shows that their integration has progressed significantly, even though some refugees came to Germany in poor health and with little formal education. Compared to the previous...

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived 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...

As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...

There is a long period from completing studies to finding a permanent or temporary (but at least satisfactory) job in all European countries, especially in Mediterranean countries, including Italy. This paper aims to study the determinants of this duration and measure them, for the first time in...

In this paper, we identify female long-term wage returns to college education using the educational expansion between 1960–1990 in West Germany as exogenous variation for college enrollment. We estimate marginal treatment effects to learn about the underlying behavioral structure of women who...

This paper explores the effects of labour market conditions at graduation on an individual's work‑life over the following decade. Australians graduating into a state and year with a 5 percentage point higher youth unemployment rate can expect to earn roughly 8 per cent less in their first year...

This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...

A criminal record can severely damage labor market prospects. While public and private organizations have developed a host of policies to encourage employers to hire people with a record, research suggests some of the policies may have negative unintended consequences. To explore ways to...

Das systematische Wissen über die Lebenslagen von geflüchteten Frauen, Kindern und Jugendlichen in Deutschland ist beschränkt. Das Forschungsprojekt "Geflüchtete Frauen und Familien" (GeFF) untersucht deswegen systematisch die besonderen Umstände der Flucht und der Integration von...

This paper studies the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying as migrants in Australia, using data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer discrimination, especially if...

Obschon die Phase des stärksten Zuzugs von Geflüchteten in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik nunmehr fünf Jahre zurückliegt, kommen auch in den letzten Jahren noch mehr Asylsuchende nach Deutschland als zu Beginn der 2010er-Jahre. So stellten im Jahr 2019 rund 166.000 Personen Asylanträge,...

Wie steht es um die Integration von Flüchtlingen in den Arbeitsmarkt? - Die KOFA-Studie 2/2020 liefert aktuelle Zahlen und Fakten. Die Jahre 2015 und 2016 zeichneten sich durch eine historisch große Flüchtlingsmigration aus, in deren Verlauf mehr als 1,2 Millionen Schutzsuchende nach...

Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit ist ein soziales Problem, das auch in wirtschaftlich guten Zeiten nie ganz verschwindet. Die Integration in Beschäftigung ist vor allem für ältere Personen, die bereits sehr lange Perioden von Arbeitslosigkeit erfahren haben, nicht einfach, mit entsprechenden...

Die vom Bundesamt für Statistik (BFS) und den Universitäten Neuchâtel und Freiburg herausgegebene neue Reihe Panorama Gesellschaft Schweiz ist eine gemeinsame Initiative der öffentlichen Statistik und der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung an den Hochschulen. Sie bezweckt, wichtige...

Several EU Member States have traditionally been a destination for migrants, whether they come from within the EU or elsewhere in the world. The flow of migrants has led to a range of new skills and talents being introduced into local labour markets while also increasing cultural diversity. The...

Wie erfolgt der berufliche Wiedereinstieg nach Abschluss der Fachschule Technik? Die vorliegende Untersuchung fokussiert ein systematisches Beschreibungs- und Erklärungswissen zum Wiedereinstieg nach erfolgreichem Abschluss der Fachschulweiterbildung und liefert datengestützte Erkenntnisse zu...

We investigate the short- and long-term effects of economic conditions at high-school graduation as a source of exogenous variation in the labor-market opportunities of potential college entrants. Exploiting business cycle fluctuations across birth cohorts for 28 developed countries, we find...

This paper provides a comprehensive quantitative assessment of the relationship between people's migration background and their likelihood of being employed in Belgium. Using detailed quarterly data for the period 2008-2014, we find not only that first-generation immigrants face a substantial...