Refugees' Integration into the Austrian Labour Market: Dynamics of Occupational Mobility and Job-Skills Mismatch.

Autor/inn/en	Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M.
Institution	Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche
Titel	Refugees' Integration into the Austrian Labour Market: Dynamics of Occupational Mobility and Job-Skills Mismatch. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Integration von Geflüchteten in den österreichischen Arbeitsmarkt: die Dynamik von beruflicher Mobilität und Mismatch.
Quelle	Wien (2020), 36 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	WIIW working paper. 188
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Mobilitätsbarriere; Arbeitnehmer; Flüchtling; Österreich; Arbeitsmobilität; Naher Osten; Berufliche Integration; Berufliche Mobilität; Herkunftsland; Qualifikationsanforderung; Mismatch; Migrationshintergrund; Mismatch; Arbeitsmobilität; Berufliche Integration; Berufliche Mobilität; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Qualifikationsanforderung; Qualifikationsdefizit; Qualifikationsverwertung; Migrationshintergrund; Arbeitnehmer; Flüchtling; Herkunftsland; Naher Osten; Österreich
Abstract	"This paper analyses the employment experiences of the recent wave of Middle Eastern refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran) in the Austrian job market. The emphasis in this research was to investigate whether refugees experienced an initial (sharp) downgrade in their occupational status when they accepted their first employment, compared with the occupation they had in their home country, and then whether (and to what extent) such a downgrade had been followed by an upgrade in the jobs they currently hold. This U-shaped pattern of occupational trajectories is familiar in the migration literature, and it is here tested using data from two survey waves of recent refugees in the Austrian labour market. The paper also analyses, in its second part, subjective assessments of refugees as to whether they feel that they are 'over-' or 'under-' qualified (regarding their previous educational attainment levels and work experiences) for the jobs in which they are currently employed. In both exercises, we report results regarding the heterogeneity across groups of refugees by age, gender, the specific occupations they held in their home country, their educational attainment levels, their country of origin, and whether they obtained refugee status as first-time asylum applicants or through family reunion. We also refer, in the section on 'job-skills' (mis)match, to further factors such as the refugees' (mental) health state and the degree of their social integration with the host population." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2021/3