The impact of refugees on employment and wages in Jordan

Fallah, Belal; Krafft, Caroline; Wahba, Jackline

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2019.03.009

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“…Carrion notes that Jordanian host communities benefited not only from the presence of refugees but also from the international aid that has come with them (Carrion 2015:2). Both Fallah et al (2019) and Hartnett (2018) show that Jordanians living in areas with a high concentration of refugees have had no worse labor market outcomes than Jordanians with less exposure to the refugee influx. However, it is reported that labor market pressures and working permits to Syrians refugees increased to the vulnerability of Egyptian migrant workers (Hartnett, 2018).…”

Section: The Perspectives Of Jordanian Host Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Perceptions About the Labor Market Integration of Refugees: Evidences from Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Mencütek

Nashwan

2020

Int. Migration & Integration

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This article focuses on the refugees' labor market integration in the immediate host countries. Drawing from the experience of Syrian refugees in Jordan, it describes how the integration in labor market depends on the alignment of four perspectives: (1) host state perspective, materialized through legal regulations about refugee employment; (2) refugee perspective that refers to refugees' access to labor market and challenges they face; (3) host community perspective that implies to the recognition, approval, or reactions of host communities to the refugee employment; and (4) donor perspective that appears with the intervention of international actors through development aid or general support to refugees' working rights. To explore these diverging perspectives and their implications about the labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Jordan, the data is gathered from ethnographic policy analysis and stakeholder interviews in urban areas and camps. We argue that the refugees' legal right to work is one of the most contentious policy issues not only for Jordanian state but also for its relations with Jordanian citizens, refugees, and donors. From the perspective of donors, ensuring Syrians' legal access to labor market in the immediate host countries, like Jordan, is a policy tool for keeping refugees in the origin region. At the host community level, the issue appears as a source of dilemma; because refugee employment is a critical domain for refugees' self-reliance and local integration on the one hand, it is perceived as the source of competition for already scarce job opportunities on the other hand. For refugees themselves, an access to labor market and getting support are ways of gaining sustainable livelihood opportunities, self-reliance, and dignity. However, this access is marked by severe conditions of exploitation, vulnerability, and discrimination in working places as well as the anti-refugee rhetoric of local host communities. Programming in refugee employment necessitates taking all these four perspectives into account.

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Section: The Perspectives Of Jordanian Host Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is believed that "this makes Jordanians angrier." The competition is relatively more acute in some sectors and cities, as Fallah et al (2019) show that Syrian refugees compete with less educated Jordanians in certain sectors such as construction.…”

Section: The Perspectives Of Jordanian Host Societymentioning

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Perceptions About the Labor Market Integration of Refugees: Evidences from Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Mencütek

Nashwan

2020

Int. Migration & Integration

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“…4 Although the findings are mixed, the main consensus in this literature is that local 1 Early examples include Card (1990), Hunt (1992), and Carrington and de Lima (1996). 2 The main papers in this literature include Del Carpio and Wagner (2015), Tumen (2016), Balkan and Tumen (2016), Ceritoglu, Gurcihan Yunculer, Torun, and Tumen (2017), Akgunduz, Hassink, and Van den Berg (2018), Akgunduz and Torun (2018), Assaad, Ginn, and Saleh (2018), Balkan, Ozcan-Tok, Torun, and Tumen (2018), Malaeb and Wahba (2018), Alhawarin, Assaad, and Elsayed (2018), Altindag, Bakis, and Rozo (2018), Fallah, Krafft, and Wahba (2019), Ajzenman, Aksoy, and Guriev (2020), and Tumen (2019b). Policy implications are discussed in more detail by Zimmermann (2016), Hatton (2017), and Aksoy and Poutvaara (2019).…”

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Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration

Aksoy

Tümen

2021

Journal of Development Economics

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Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author(s) and not those of IZA. Research published in this series may include views on policy, but IZA takes no institutional policy positions. The IZA research network is committed to the IZA Guiding Principles of Research Integrity. The IZA Institute of Labor Economics is an independent economic research institute that conducts research in labor economics and offers evidence-based policy advice on labor market issues. Supported by the Deutsche Post Foundation, IZA runs the world's largest network of economists, whose research aims to provide answers to the global labor market challenges of our time. Our key objective is to build bridges between academic research, policymakers and society. IZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.

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“…Evidence suggests that refugees can boost local economies (Taylor et al 2016;Alix-Garcia et al 2018;Maystadt and Duranton 2018) but also have detrimental impacts on host populations, for example by competing for scarce resources and jobs (Ruiz and Vargas-Silva 2015;Tumen 2016; Depetris-Chauvin and Santos 2018) or by favoring the propagation of diseases (Montalvo and Reynal-Querol 2007;Baez 2011). Overall, part of the host population seems to benefit from the arrivals of refugees while others end up worse off (Alix-Garcia and Saah 2009;Maystadt and Verwimp 2014;Fallah et al 2019). The economic literature on refugees themselves is surprisingly scarce.…”

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Cash Transfers and Micro-Enterprise Performance: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Kenya

Sterck

Delius

2020

SSRN Journal

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Theoretically, the effect of household cash transfers depends on how businesses respond to the demand shock and on the resulting effect on prices. Such market effects have been largely overlooked in the literature, which mostly focuses on direct impacts on households. We study the impact of a household cash transfer program on retail businesses operating in two refugee sites in Kenya. Refugees receive a monthly mobile money transfer that can only be spent at licensed businesses. We compare licensed and unlicensed businesses, using matching methods to control for all variables considered in the licensing process. We show that licensed businesses have much higher revenues and profits and charge higher prices than unlicensed businesses. The cash transfer program created a parallel retail market in which a limited number of businesses enjoy high market power. We identify a series of market imperfections explaining the results.

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The impact of refugees on employment and wages in Jordan

Cited by 99 publications

References 22 publications

Perceptions About the Labor Market Integration of Refugees: Evidences from Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Perceptions About the Labor Market Integration of Refugees: Evidences from Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Local Governance Quality and the Environmental Cost of Forced Migration

Cash Transfers and Micro-Enterprise Performance: Theory and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Kenya

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