Local labor markets and earnings of refugee immigrants

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• 作者：Anna Godøy
• 关键词：Immigration ; Settlement policies ; Location choice ; Labor market outcomes
• 刊名：Empirical Economics
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：52
• 期：1
• 页码：31-58
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• 刊物主题：Econometrics; Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：1435-8921
• 卷排序：52

文摘

This paper estimates how local conditions at the time of immigration influence later outcomes for refugee immigrants to Norway, exploiting the quasi-experimental nature of the Norwegian system for settlement for “quota” or resettlement refugees. A unique administrative dataset with assigned settlement municipalities is used to identify the causal effect of initial location characteristics. Being placed in a labor market where other non-OECD immigrants do well increases own annual labor earnings up to 6 years after immigration. Extended models suggest that this effect is not driven by individual scarring effects: when controlling for the contemporaneous employment rate in the assigned region, effects of initial conditions disappear. Rather, the effects appear to be due to persistence in local labor market conditions combined with limited geographical mobility in response to adverse labor market conditions.