Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects

Blog posts & media:

CGD and RI Launch New Initiative to Expand Formal Labor Market Access for Refugees (CGD Blog, June 2019) [text]

Gaining Access to Work for Women Refugees in Jordan (RI Blog, June 2019) [text]

The Global Compact on Migration: From Ideals to Reality (EUIdeas Blog, June 2019) [text]
- Discusses labour market policy.

Myth Busted: EU Migrants No Extra Burden on Taxpayers in More Generous Welfare States (The Conversation, May 2019) [text]

The Right to Work can Empower Refugees in Malaysia (The Conversation, July 2019) [text]

"Will Refugees Be Allowed to Work in New Malaysia?," The Diplomat, 4 June 2019 [text]

A World of Self-reliant Refugees? Reflections on World Refugee Day (Centre for Development Studies Blog, June 2019) [text]

Articles & reports:

Asylum Seekers in the EU Labour Market: The Example of Sweden, Working Paper, no. 2 (ECRE, May 2019) [text]

Dignity at Stake: Challenges to Accessing Decent Work in Lebanon (ACTED et al., May 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"The Economics of Migration," Contexts, vol. 18, no. 2 (2019) [free full-text]

A Framework for Measuring the Impact of Internal Displacement on Income (IDMC, June 2019) [text]
- Part of the thematic series "The ripple effect: economic impacts of internal displacement."

How Mass Immigration Affects Countries with Weak Economic Institutions: A Natural Experiment in Jordan, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 8817 (World Bank, April 2019) [text]

The Impact of Hosting Refugees on the Labour Market (Economic Research Forum, May 2019) [text]

"Labour Market Participation of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Brussels: Innovation and Institutional Complementarity," Brussels Studies, no. 135 (May 2019) [open access]

"Labor Migrants as Political Leverage: Migration Interdependence and Coercion in the Mediterranean," International Studies Quarterly, vol. 62, no. 2 (June 2018) [open access]

Migration and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: The Effect of Returning Refugees on Export Performance in the Former Yugoslavia, IZA Discussion Paper, no. 12412 (Institute of Labor Economics, June 2019) [text]

Refugee Relocation: A Mechanism Design Perspective (SSRN, June 2019) [preprint]

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- Thematic Focus: Work/Economic Aspects (27 May 2019)

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