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Refugee Migrations – Opportunities and Challenges for Retailing

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  • Gülsüm Orhan

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The strong influx of refugees in 2015 and 2016 has made itself felt in the distribution trade: the sharp rise in retail and food sales seems to have been partly caused by the influx of refugees. The question of the extent to which refugees can be employed as retail workers requires a differentiated reply. The needs of retailers for qualified personnel, on the one hand, and the relatively low level of education of many refugees, on the other, are not easily reconcilable, so that an ideal matching in the labour market will not be possible, at least not in the short term.

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  • Gülsüm Orhan, 2017. "Refugee Migrations – Opportunities and Challenges for Retailing," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 70(04), pages 39-44, February.
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    JEL classification:

    • L81 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Services - - - Retail and Wholesale Trade; e-Commerce
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination

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