Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Refugee Integration: An Experimental Study
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Keywords
Integration of immigrants; Language skills; Job mobility;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2021-08-16 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-EXP-2021-08-16 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-ISF-2021-08-16 (Islamic Finance)
- NEP-LAB-2021-08-16 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2021-08-16 (Economics of Human Migration)
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