The value of formal host-country education for the labour market position of refugees: evidence from Austria

Lars Ludolph

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Abstract: Refugees hosted in countries with advanced economies often work in low quality jobs, regardless of the education they obtained in their home countries. In this paper, I analyse the long-term impact of formal host-country education for refugees on labour market outcomes, using 22 years of microcensus data on Bosnians arriving in Austria during the 1992–1995 Bosnian war. I estimate local average treatment effects using age at the time of forced migration as an instrument for the probability of receiving education in Austria instead of Bosnia. I find that receiving a formal degree in Austria significantly reduced the probability of work below educational attainment and low-skill employment for two decades after arrival. There are visible income differences between holders of Austrian and Bosnian degrees beyond this period. Female refugees benefited significantly more from obtaining host-country education than males.

Keywords: Employment quality; Human capital; Labour market integration; Refugees (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 21 pages
Date: 2023-02-01
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Published in Economics of Education Review, 1, February, 2023, 92. ISSN: 0272-7757

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