Challenges faced by asylum seekers and refugees in successfully integrating into the labor market

This report describes some of the challenges that asylum seekers and refugees face in integrating into the labour market in the EU-28, Norway and Turkey. The information is based principally on information collected from these 30 countries as part of the European Employment Policy Observatory (EEPO) ad-hoc request on Labour market integration of asylum seekers and refugees.

European Commission
Filip Tanay (Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG, Refugee Task Force),
Chiara Monti (Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG, Refugee Task Force),
Sophie Kammerer (Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG, Unit A.1: Employment and Social Aspects of European Semester),
Monika Kalocinska (Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion DG, Unit A.1: Employment and Social Aspects of European Semester).

EEPO Country Experts

Belgium: Robert Plasman, DULBEA - Université de Bruxelles (University of Brussels),
Brussels

Bulgaria: Pobeda Loukanova (Economic Research Institute, Sofia)

Czech Republic: Daniel Münich (CERGE-EI - Centre for Economic Research & Graduate
Education, Charles University - Economics Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences,
Prague 0

Denmark: Per Kongshøj Madsen (CARMA - Centre for Labour Market Research,
Aalborg University)

Germany: Nicola Düll (Economix Research & Consulting, Munich)

Estonia: Kirsti Nurmela (Praxis Centre for Policy Studies, Tallinn)

Ireland: Seamus McGuiness (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin)

Greece: Dimitris Karantinos (EKKE - National Centre of Social Research, Athens)

Spain: Elvira González Gago (Research4Consulting, Madrid)

France: Sandrine Gineste (Bernard Brunhes Consultants, Paris)

Italy: Giuseppe Ciccarone (Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini/ Giacomo Brodolini
Foundation, Rome)

Cyprus: Louis N. Christofides (University of Cyprus, Nicosia)

Latvia: Alfreds Vanags (BICEPS - Baltic International Centre for Economic Policy
Studies, Riga)

Lithuania: Boguslavas Gruževskis and Inga Blaziene (Institute of Labour and Social
Research, Vilnius)

Luxembourg: Patrick Thill (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER),
Esch-sur-Alzette)

Croatia: Zdenko Babić (Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb)

Hungary: Ágota Scharle (Budapest Szakpolitikai Elemző Intézet Kft/ Budapest Institute
for Policy Analysis Ltd)

Malta: Manwel Debono, Centre for Labour Studies, L-Università ta' Malta (University of
Malta), Msida

Netherlands: Marc van der Meer, ReflecT Institute, University of Tilburg (University
of Tilburg), Tilburg

Austria: Ferdinand Lechner (Lechner, Reiter und Riesenfelder Sozialforschung OG,
Vienna)

Poland: Łukasz Sienkiewicz (Instytut Analiz Rynku Pracy/ Institute for Labor Market
Analyses, Warsaw)

Portugal: Reinhard (Naumann (DINÂMIA - Centro de Estudos sobre a Mudança
Socioeconómica/ Research Centre on Socioeconomic Change, Lisbon)

Romania: Cătălin Ghinăraru (National Labour Research Institute, Bucharest)

Slovenia: Miroljub Ignjatović (Fakulteta za druzbene vede, Univerza v Ljubljani/ Faculty
of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana)

Slovakia: Luboš Vagač (Centrum pre hospodársky rozvoj/ Centre for Economic
Development, Bratislava)

Finland: Esa Jokinen (Benefit Studies, Tampere)

Sweden: Dominique Anxo (CELMS HB - Centre for European Labour Market Studies HB,
Gothenburg EEPO Country Experts)

United Kingdom: Kenneth Walsh (TERN - Training & Employment Research Network,
Kidderminster)

Turkey: Hakan Ercan (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi/ Department of Economics, Middle
East Technical University, Ankara)

Norway: Sissel C. Trygstad (Fafo Institutt for arbeidslivs- og velferdsforskning/ Fafo
Institute of Labour and Social Research, Oslo)

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Editors: Lucy Arora, Almina Bešić, Jo Hawley-Woodall, Laura Hayward, Anna
Manoudi, Ruth Santos-Brien and David Scott

Source: European Employment Policy Observatory (EEPO)

Link: EEPORefugeesSynthesisreportEMPL_FINAL41.pdf

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