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Work permits for refugees as social protection during polycrises: Evidence from refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  • Wolfgang Stojetz
  • Piero Ronzani
  • Sarah Fenzl
  • Ghassan Baliki
  • Tilman Brück

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This paper studies the social protection of refugees during a pandemic. A pandemic adds to the many existing challenges refugees face, creating a dangerous polycrisis. Drawing on detailed household-level data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, we analyse the economic impacts of granting work permits to Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Jordan.

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  • Wolfgang Stojetz & Piero Ronzani & Sarah Fenzl & Ghassan Baliki & Tilman Brück, 2024. "Work permits for refugees as social protection during polycrises: Evidence from refugees in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2024-83, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2024-83
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    1. Gordon, Jennifer, 2019. "Refugees and decent work lessons learned from recent refugee jobs compacts," ILO Working Papers 995055293302676, International Labour Organization.
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      Keywords

      Refugees; Social protection; Crisis; COVID-19;
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      JEL classification:

      • D04 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation; Implementation; Evaluation
      • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
      • J20 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - General
      • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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