Explaining refugee employment declines: structural shortcomings in federal resettlement support

AN Kreisberg, E De Graauw, S Gleeson - Social Problems, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract In the United States, the integration experiences of immigrants depend partly on
whether they are recognized as refugees or economic migrants. Unlike economic migrants …

The survival job trap: explaining refugee employment outcomes in Chicago and the contributing factors

A Lumley-Sapanski - Journal of Refugee Studies, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Refugees resettled through the United States Refugee Admissions Program are expected to
become economically self-sufficient by 90 days post arrival. To meet this expectation …

[PDF][PDF] Integrating refugees into host country labor markets: Challenges and policy options

MV Desiderio - Washington DC: Migration Policy Institute, 2016 - migrationpolicy.org
As many countries face a large influx of refugees and other migrants, social and integration
services are mired in emergency response. Without stepping up efforts to help newcomers …

Comparing labor market trajectories of refugee women to other immigrant and native-born women in the United States

R Vijaya - Feminist Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Even as the world has witnessed an unprecedented number of displaced individuals,
resettlement of refugees has been met with fears about their ability to integrate into host …

Employment retention, area of origin and type of social support among refugees in the Chicago area

L Majka, B Mullan - International Migration Review, 1992 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines the impact of various sociodemographic variables on refugees'
employment propensities in the greater metropolitan Chicago area. It extends existing …

The labor market integration of refugee migrants in high-income countries

C Brell, C Dustmann, I Preston - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2020 - aeaweb.org
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 …

For refugees, the road to employment in the United States is paved with workable uncertainties and controversies

J Koyama - Sociological Forum, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Drawing on data—including survey responses, interviews, documents, and participant
observation—collected during a 26‐month ethnography of refugees in a northeastern US …

A comparison of wages by gender and region of origin for newly arrived refugees in the USA

OM Minor, M Cameo - Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2018 - Springer
The resettlement model supported by the US government aims to help recently arrived
refugees achieve economic self-reliance within the first 90 to 180 days of arrival. In addition …

Integrating refugees by addressing labor shortages? A policy evaluation

M Foged, J Kreuder, G Peri - 2022 - nber.org
We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in
Denmark in 2013, that matched refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after …

Getting refugees to work: A street-level perspective of refugee resettlement policy

JH Darrow - Refugee Survey Quarterly, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Refugee resettlement organizations in the US are tasked with implementing employment
policies for newly arrived refugees, yet there is limited research explaining how refugee …