[PDF][PDF] Empowering refugees: The role of training programs in labor market integration

CM Zisler, E Bettinger, U Backes-Gellner - 2024 - repec.business.uzh.ch
Given the increase in global refugee and migration flows and the severe labor shortages in
host countries, actively helping refugees enter the labor market constitutes a critical solution …

Empowering Refugees: The Role of Comprehensive Training Programs in Labor Market Integration

CM Zisler, E Bettinger, U Backes-Gellner - Available at SSRN 5017460 - papers.ssrn.com
Given the increase in global refugee and migration flows and the severe labor shortages in
host countries, actively helping refugees enter the labor market constitutes a critical need …

Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage

G Bonoli, I Otmani - Social Policy & Administration, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of refugees is a serious social policy problem in many advanced countries,
and current trends suggest that this issue is unlikely to disappear soon. At the same time …

Labor market effects of a work-first policy for refugees

JN Arendt - Journal of Population Economics, 2022 - Springer
This study estimates the labor market effects of a work-first policy aimed at speeding up the
labor market integration of refugees. The policy added new requirements for refugees to …

Do Austrian programmes facilitate labour market integration of refugees?

R Ortlieb, P Eggenhofer‐Rehart, S Leitner… - International …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This study examines two programmes aimed at integrating refugees into the Austrian labour
market: a short‐term Skills Assessment and a longer‐term Integration Year that includes an …

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 …

Comparing the effects of policies for the labor market integration of refugees

M Foged, L Hasager, G Peri - Journal of Labor Economics, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper reviews, reanalyzes, and extends to the long run the estimated effects of
integration polices on the employment probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark. We …

Labor market integration of refugees: RCT evidence from an early intervention program in Sweden

M Dahlberg, J Egebark, U Vikman, G Özcan - Journal of Economic …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study uses a randomized controlled trial to evaluate a new program for increased labor
market integration of refugees. The new program starts shortly after the residence permit is …

Double jeopardy: How refugees fare in one European labor market

D Lens, I Marx, S Vujić - IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2019 - sciendo.com
This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium
between 1999 and 2009. Belgium offers a relatively easy formal labor market access to …

Integrating refugees: Language training or work-first incentives?

JN Arendt, I Bolvig, M Foged, L Hasager, G Peri - 2020 - policycommons.net
Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to
producing positive effects in the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that …