Piil Damm, A.;
Rosholm, M.;
(2006)
Employment effects of spatial dispersal of refugees.
(Discussion Paper Series
05/06).
Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration: London, UK.
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Abstract
We argue that spatial dispersal policies on refugees and asylum seekers influence labour market assimilation of refugees through two mechanisms: first, the local job offer arrival rate and, second, place utility. Our partial search model with simultaneous job and residential location search predicts that the reservation wage for local jobs decreases with place utility. We argue that spatial dispersal decreases average place utility of refugees which decreases the transition rate into first job due to large local reservation wages. We investigate both mechanisms empirically and test the predictions of the theoretical model by evaluating the employment effects of the Danish spatial dispersal policy carried out 1986-1998.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Employment effects of spatial dispersal of refugees |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.econ.ucl.ac.uk/cream/publicationsdiscus... |
| Language: | English |
| Keywords: | JEL classification: J64, J61, J68, J15. Spatial dispersal, refugees, job search, residential search |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/14306 |
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