Arno Tausch: Getting Asylum Seekers into Employment?

The cross-national empirics of the international asylum system are in their infancy. While Hatton, 2009, and Neumayer, 2005, 2006a and 2006b provided important and valuable cross-national insights on the drivers of the asylumseeking process, as yet little is known in terms of hard-core evidence about the effects of asylum-driven migration processes on the recipient countries. But such analyses are necessary, since asylum plays such an important role in the overall South-North migration process, and several international decision makers, especially on the European level, are increasingly stressing the necessity to get asylum seekers into employment, while others – like the Austrian Ministry of the Interior in its long-term strategy, published in 2012 –vehemently argue in favour of a clear separation between legal, employmentrelated migration and asylum. Will ‘getting asylum seekers into employment’have any effects on social and economic development, or will this motivate more and more people to emigrate for work as “free riders” of the asylum system? This dataset should preliminarily attempt to close this widening and politically highly relevant research gap...Read more