Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Michele Battisti (), Yvonne Giesing and Nadzeya Laurentsyeva ()

No 7292, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing uncertainty about their residence status. These individuals might not search effectively, lack access to alternative support programmes, and may be disregarded by employers due to perceived higher hiring costs.

Keywords: refugees; labour market integration; job search assistance; field experiment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 F22 J61 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-exp, nep-lab, nep-mac and nep-mig
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (7)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/cesifo1_wp7292.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? Evidence from a field experiment (2019)
Working Paper: Can job search assistance improve the labour market integration of refugees? Evidence from a field experiment (2019)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ces:ceswps:_7292

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Klaus Wohlrabe ().