Retirement homes offer training for refugees
The “Kuratorium Wiener Pensionisten-Wohnhäuser (KWP)“ has recently started a training for 22 asylum seekers, persons entitled to subsidiary protection and refugees as [...]
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Interview on the labour market integration of refugees
In an interview with the daily newspaper “Der Standard”, expert Judith Kohlenberger from the Business University Vienna talks about the labour market integration of [...]
Social welfare as magnet for refugees?
A new study examined how changes in the Danish social system affected migration and concluded that more social benefits lead to more immigration. This is in contrast to other [...]
Job fair for refugees
On March 3, 2020, the second job fair for refugees took place in Vienna. More than 1000 persons entitled to asylum were able to get information from more than 50 companies [...]
Asylum seekers fight for access to the job market in court
In Austria, asylum seekers only have limited access to the labour market. In January 2020, two judgments by the Federal Administrative Court in Vienna were issued, in which [...]
Employment of refugees
This OECD report describes the opportunities and challenges when employers want to employ [...]
Everyone benefits from the labour market integration of refugees
Using the example of the federal state of Vorarlberg, this article shows that society benefits in several ways if refugees are integrated into the labour market as early as [...]
Labour market integration: long-term forecast difficult
Although the labour market integration of refugees is developing positively, a long-term forecast is difficult. Many employed refugees often work in precarious, poorly paid [...]
Study on labour market integration
A study by the University of Vienna examined how well the labour market integration of refugees works in Austria. The study results show that most refugees work in [...]
Refugees integrated into the labour market, but poorly paid
Most of the asylum seekers are fairly well placed on the job market, but mostly only in jobs for low-skilled or as auxiliary workers. Experts warn of this development – [...]