scholarly journals The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtney Brell ◽  
Christian Dustmann ◽  
Ian Preston
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
High Income ◽  
Significant Heterogeneity ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Employment Rates

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 employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is significant heterogeneity between host countries, but in general, refugees experience persistently worse outcomes than other migrants. While the gaps between the groups can be seen to decrease on a timescale of a decade or two, this is more pronounced in employment rates than it is in wages. We also discuss how refugees are distinct in terms of other factors affecting integration, including health, language skills, and social networks. We provide a discussion of insights for public policy in receiving countries, concluding that supporting refugees in early labor market attachment is crucial.

Europe’s promise for jobs?

2018 ◽  
pp. 419-442
Author(s):  
Thees F. Spreckelsen ◽  
Janine Leschke ◽  
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Nonstandard Employment ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Institutional Differences ◽  
Employment Rates

This chapter examines the labor market integration of recent migrant youth from Central and Eastern Europe (EU8) countries, Bulgaria and Romania (EU2), Southern Europe, and the remaining European Union in the German and UK labor markets. The chapter measures levels of employment, income, marginal employment, fixed-term employment, (solo) self-employment, and the skills/qualification mismatch of each group compared to nationals before and after the financial crisis. Despite institutional differences, young EU citizens are well integrated into the respective labor markets (especially in the United Kingdom) in terms of employment rates. However, EU youth migrants’ qualitative labor market integration seems to mirror the existing stratification across regions of Europe: EU8 and EU2 citizens often work in precarious and nonstandard employment, youth from Southern Europe take a middle position, and youth from the remaining EU countries do as well or better on several indicators compared to their native peers.

scholarly journals ‘You Need to Know Someone Who Knows Someone’: International Students’ Job Search Experiences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolle Alho
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
International Students ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Job Search ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
International Student ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Institutional Contexts

The article analyzes how 31 international students (IS) entered the Finnish labor market as they graduated from Finnish universities. Despite a growing interest in international student migration (ISM), there are few studies that analyze the firsthand experiences of IS as they seek to enter the receiving-country labor markets as they graduate. This article contributes to the topic by showing how the interviewees of this study managed to enter the receiving-country labor markets, which are embedded in national, cultural, and institutional contexts that require context-bound knowledge of particular recruitment patterns.The contribution of the article lies in (1) providing new insights on an understudied topic: IS’ experiences of finding jobs in the country of graduation, and, in (2) constructing a theoretical framework for analyzing IS’ job search in the countries ofgraduation. More broadly, the article contributes to the studies on highly educated migrants’ labor market integration by shedding light on the experiences in a Nordic setting.

scholarly journals Globalization, Labor Markets and Policy Backlash in the Past

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey G Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Growth Convergence ◽  
Plant Seeds ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Intense Debate

The late nineteenth and twentieth centuries have many things in common. Both periods recorded fast growth, convergence, and labor-market integration between OECD members. Both periods witnessed intense debate about who gained and who lost from globalization. Furthermore, the earlier period saw a retreat from global liberalism long before the interwar deglobalization disaster. Did globalization of that time plant seeds of its own destruction? Are there lessons for the present?

scholarly journals One Market or Many? Labor Market Integration in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States

1990 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Labor Markets ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Labor Demand ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Demand Growth ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Nineteenth Century United States

This article examines the geographic integration of U.S. labor markets from 1870 to 1898, using previously unexploited wage and price data for 23 occupations in 12 major cities. In contrast to the increasing nationalization found in other markets at that time, the labor market was characterized by large and persistent real wage differentials both within and between regions, leaving little doubt that late nineteenth-century labor markets remained far from completely integrated. The differentials, however, owed as much to substantial variations in labor demand growth as to the lack of labor market integration.

scholarly journals Lessons learned: The longitudinal effects of Austria’s labor market integration policies on Bosnian refugees

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isra Syed Hussain
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Relationship Formation ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Bosnian War ◽  
Longitudinal Effects ◽  
Employment Rates

The response to the recent influx of refugees in Europe indicates a need to reevaluate systems of reception and integration in a global society that is marred by increased xenophobia and nationalist rhetoric. Nearly three decades ago, the Austrian government deployed special accommodations to handle a similarly sized influx of refugees entering Europe, individuals and families who were fleeing ethnic cleansing from the Bosnian War. These accommodations, and their eventual economic integration components, provide longitudinal data that indicates a system that allowed employment rates of Bosnian refugees to match the rate of host country populations within a generation. Through thematic analysis of an extensive literature review and field consultations in Vienna, this research will investigate what lessons the global community can learn from Austria’s treatment of Bosnians refugees, and whether these lessons can contribute to improved procedures for integrating refugees into host societies. Preliminary results indicate the role of social capital, civil society, and religion as factors of labor market integration, while also acknowledging rates of underemployment and stagnation in the asylum process as deterrents to positive relationship formation between host societies and refugee populations. The culmination of this year-long project will be a series of recommendations on how local and national actors can enact services that will benefit the longer-term goals of both refugee populations and host societies.

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