Employment Effects of Dispersal Policies on Refugee Immigrants, Part I: Theory

Anna Damm () and Michael Rosholm

No 924, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper formulates a partial search model in which unemployed individuals simultaneously search for job and location of residence. Most importantly, we show that, ceteris paribus, a decrease in current place utility increases the transition rate into a new location of residence and the transition rate into employment outside the local labour market, but decreases the transition rate into local employment. Thus, a decrease in current place utility decreases the overall job-finding rate if the local reservation wage effect dominates. We argue that dispersal policies on refugee immigrants are characterized by low average values of current place utility. Hence, the model predicts that dispersal policies increase the geographical mobility rates of refugees and, for a sufficiently large local reservation wage effect, decrease their jobfinding rates.

Keywords: dispersal policy on refugees; job search; residential search; geographical mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 J64 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 2003-11
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Published - combined with IZA DP 925 published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2010, 8 (1), 105–146

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