AutorIn 1: | ||
Dellinger, Fanny | ||
HerausgeberIn 1: | ||
University of Innsbruck | ||
Titel: | ||
Housing Support Policies and Refugees’ Labor Market Integration in Austria | ||
Ort: | ||
Innsbruck | ||
Verlag: | ||
University of Innsbruck | ||
Jahr: | ||
2021 | ||
Reihe: | ||
University of Innsbruck, Working Papers in Economics and Statistics 2021-32 | ||
Abstract: | ||
"(...) Housing support is an important lever for promoting integration objectives with huge potential to improve
refugees’ early employment outcomes. This mixed-methods study is based on Austrian register data and interviews
with NGO and government representatives. In Austria, asylum seekers are quasi-randomly assigned to federal
states (Bundesl¨ander). There, monetary assistance is similar for asylees but only some states offer further support
with the housing search process. This study assesses the impact of housing support on refugees’ location choice
and early employment outcomes by comparing two groups of refugee men: singles and those with families. If
housing support is limited, scarce resources are directed to the most vulnerable and single men are often left out.
This makes them more likely to leave an assigned state and find shelter with the ethnic community. Whereas in
states with strong housing support single men and families show roughly equal propensities to out-migrate, if
support is low 63% of single men but only 35% of families leave. In the first year, employment rates of single men
assigned to low housing support states are estimated to be 6 percentage points lower due to a lack of housing
support. (...)" [Labour Market Integration of Refugees, Housing entry pathways, host country institutions, Austria] | ||
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