Econ Papers Daily / 期刊论文
难民经济融入与企业
Refugees’ Economic Integration and Firms
摘要
We explore whether a civic integration exam component dedicated to labor market training, namely the ONA - a type of job search assistance program, boosts refugees’ economic outcomes and the quality of firms they work for. Using linked employer-employee (monthly) data from 2014 to 2021 for the Netherlands and Regression Discontinuity design, we find that taking the ONA sped up and deepened the economic integration of refugees for at least 3 years in terms of increased employment probability and higher hourly wages. We further show that taking the ONA results in refugees working for larger, less routine-task intensive, higher wage firms. These results reflect improvements in both match efficiency and match quality. The ONA therefore does more than reduce search frictions: it equips refugees with the knowledge to navigate the labor market effectively and find employment that aligns better with their existing abilities and human capital.
中文摘要
我们探讨了公民融合考试中专门针对劳动力市场培训的一个组成部分，即ONA——一种求职援助项目，是否能提升难民的经济成果及其所服务企业的质量。利用荷兰2014年至2021年关联雇主-雇员（月度）数据及断点回归设计，我们发现参加ONA加速并深化了难民的经济融合，至少在3年内表现为就业概率提高和小时工资上升。我们进一步表明，参加ONA导致难民在规模更大、常规任务密集度较低、工资更高的企业中工作。这些结果反映了匹配效率和匹配质量的提升。因此，ONA不仅仅减少了搜索摩擦：它赋予难民有效驾驭劳动力市场的知识，并找到与其现有能力和人力资本更契合的就业机会。