Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants: Empirical Evidence

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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants: Empirical Evidence

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Piil Damm, Anna () (Department of Economics, Aarhus School of Business)
Rosholm, Michael () (Department of Economics, University of Aarhus)

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Abstract

Do dispersal policies on refugee immigrants promote their labour

market outcomes? To investigate this we estimate the effects of location

characteristics and the average effect of geographical mobility

on the hazard rate into first job of refugee immigrants subjected to

the Danish Dispersal Policy 1986-1998. We correct for selection into

relocation to another municipality by joint estimation of the duration

of the first non-employment spell and time until relocation.

We find, first, that the hazard rate into first job is decreasing in the

local population size and the local share of immigrants. These findings

support dispersal policies. Second, on average geographical mobility

had large, positive effects on the hazard rate into first job, suggesting

that restrictions on placed refugees’ subsequent out-migration would

hamper labour market integration of ref

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Paper provided by University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 04-20.

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Date of creation: 02 Sep 2005
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J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search

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