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Integration of recent refugees and third country nationals into the Austrian labour market
Client/Funding Institution
Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank
Abstract
The aim of this project was to investigate the opportunities and challenges of integrating refugees and migrants in the Austrian labour market. A particular focus of the analysis was to follow the dynamics of labour market integration, building on a variety of longitudinal databases, including our own survey (FIMAS) covering recent refugees/asylum seekers as well as register-based labour market career data from Statistics Austria. The aim was to follow the experiences of different groups of refugees and migrants coming from different countries of origin with their specific personal characteristics, social contexts and participations in various policy programmes. Analytically, labour market integration was analysed along a number of different dimensions of integration (such as social network formation, cultural integration, integration into the health and other aspects of the welfare system, training and educational integration, etc) to check how these interact to facilitate or hinder labour market integration. An important part of the project addressed the vulnerability of refugees to mental health problems and identified the effect of stressors and resilience factors on their mental health situation. Various state-of-the-art statistical methods were applied to analyse the heterogeneity of experiences, effectiveness of policy programmes and interaction between different dimensions of integration.
Duration
October 2016 - June 2019
wiiw team Leader
wiiw Staff
Stefan Jestl, Michael Landesmann, Sandra M. Leitner, Sebastian Leitner, Isilda Mara
Publications
- Successful settlement of refugees in Austria: A multiple indicators and multiple causes approach
- The Effect of Stressors and Resilience Factors on Mental Health of Recent Refugees in Austria
- Various Domains of Integration of Refugees and their Interrelationships: A Study of Recent Refugee Inflows in Austria
- Employment Gaps Between Refugees, Migrants and Natives: Evidence from Austrian Register Based Labour Market Data
External Publications
Successful settlement of refugees in Austria: A multiple indicators and multiple causes approach' (with Michael Landesmann), in: Rainer Bauböck, Christoph Reinprecht and Wiebke Sievers (eds), Flucht und Asyl. Internationale und österreichische Perspektiven, Jahrbuch 5/2019, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 2020
Related News
- Mental distress of refugees: a challenge for social and labour market integration (2 December 2019)
- Recent refugee arrivals in Austria: Challenges to social and labour market integration (26 November 2019)
- Refugees in Austria: Strong labour market integration after several years (21 November 2019)
Keywords: Austria, refugees, economic migrants from third countries, labour market, labour market integration measures, migration policy, longitudinal survey
Countries covered: EU-28
Research Areas: Labour, Migration and Income Distribution