Labour market performance of refugees in the EU.

Autor/in	Peschner, Jörg
Institution	Europäische Kommission / Generaldirektion Beschäftigung, Soziales und Integration
Titel	Labour market performance of refugees in the EU. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufliche Integration von Flüchtlingen in der EU.
Quelle	Brüssel (2017), 24 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	European Commission. Working paper. 2017,01
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1977-4125
ISBN	978-92-79-68446-3
DOI	10.2767/191461
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Fremdsprachenkenntnisse; Arbeitsmarktchance; Arbeitsmarktrisiko; Berufliche Integration; Berufliche Qualifikation; Berufserfahrung; Internationaler Vergleich; Europäische Union; Flüchtling; Belgien; Bulgarien; Estland; Finnland; Frankreich; Griechenland; Großbritannien; Herkunftsland; Italien; Kroatien; Lettland; Litauen; Luxemburg; Malta; Norwegen; Polen; Portugal; Rumänien; Schweden; Schweiz; Slowakei; Slowenien; Spanien; Tschechische Republik; Ungarn; Zypern; Österreich
Abstract	"This paper analyses the individual driving factors of refugees' and family migrants' labour market performance, using an ordinal logistic regression model. In a basic model, their employment rate is being regressed against the main socio-demographic characteristics (sex, age, education), before a supplementary model includes other information (years of residence, language skills and information about parents) available through the 2014 ad hoc module of the Labour Force Survey dedicated to migration. A second model extends the analysis towards employment dynamics, i.e., refugees' chances to find employment and their risk to move into unemployment.; The analysis finds evidence that good education helps improve the employment rate of refugees (and family migrants) and their chances of finding a job if unemployed or inactive. However, the improvement is much less significant than it is for native-born workers. Tertiary education, in particular, seems to pay out much less. The analysis concludes that labour market access barriers reduce migrants' performance on the labour market. There are a number of labour market barriers that are beyond control of the migrants themselves, but rather attributed to 'being a migrant': legal obstacles, low acceptance of qualifications acquired abroad as well as discrimination lower the return on education on the labour market. In addition, insufficient language skills are shown to have a large negative effect on the employment rate of refugees and family migrants even after controlling for personal characteristics such as education. Investment into closing the language gap promises a high return to both the newcomers themselves and the economy." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/4