Asylum Policies and the Labour Market Integration of Refugees across Europe


Dr. Tommaso Frattini, University of Milan

We study the labour market integration of refugees across European countries. In particular, we analyse the role of different refugee policies, as well as of economic conditions in receiving countries at the time of arrival, on refugees’ subsequent assimilation trajectories. We use newly available data from two waves of the European Labour Force Survey, which enable us to identify refugee migrants and study their labour market integration vis-à-vis that of economic migrants.



About the speaker

Tommaso Frattini is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods of the University of Milan. He is also a Research Fellow at CReAM, the Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London (UCL), at Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano (LdA) and at IZA, and a Research Affiliate at CEPR.He received his PhD in Economics from University College London in 2010. His main research interests are in Applied Microeconometrics, Labour Economics and the Economics of Migration. In particular, he has studied the labour market and fiscal consequences of migration in destination and in source countries, the socio-economic assimilation of immigrants and their children and the determinants and consequences of migration policies. His work has been published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Economic Journal, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics and Economic Policy among others.



Venue: Conference room (0.16 & 0.17)

Date: 30 November 2017

Time: 12:00 - 13:00  CET


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