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Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants: Theory

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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

This paper formulates a partial search model in which unemployed

individuals simultaneously search for job and location of residence.

Most importantly, we show that, ceteris paribus, a decrease in current

place utility increases the transition rate into a new location of

residence and the transition rate into employment outside the local

labour market, but decreases the transition rate into local employment.

Thus, a decrease in current place utility decreases the overall

job-finding rate if the local reservation wage effect dominates.

We argue that dispersal policies on refugee immigrants are characterised

by low average values of current place utility. Hence, the

model predicts that dispersal policies increase the geographical mobility

rates of refugees and, for a sufficiently large local reservation wage

effect, decrease their job-finding rates.

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Paper provided by University of Aarhus, Aarhus School of Business, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 05-1.

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Date of creation: 02 Sep 2005
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Keywords: Job Search; Residential Search; Geographical Mobility; Dispersal Policy on Refugees;

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J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities and Races; Non-labor Discrimination
J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies - - - Public Policy

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