Refugees are less likely to be employed the longer they live in the United States, despite unique and early access to employment services, according to new Cornell research.
Gaining lawful permanent residency status immediately helps refugees find jobs, but after five years their employment actually declines, researchers found in their study, “Explaining Refugee Employment Declines: Structural Shortcomings in Federal Resettlement Support.”
The paper, which published Jan. 5 in the journal Social Problems, was co-authored by Shannon Gleeson, professor and chair of the Department of Labor Relations, Law and History, in the ILR School.
“We find that declines in federal funding support, market-based mandates emphasizing rapid employment and quickly achieved self-sufficiency, and a patchwork of disparately funded and poorly networked support organizations all help explain why federal resettlement resources fall short in aiding the long-term employment prospects of refugees,” the researchers wrote. “These results have important implications for studies of immigrant integration, state support for social welfare, and organizational sociology.”
The paper was co-authored by A. Nicole Kreisberg of the Harvard Center for Population and Developmental Studies and Els de Graauw of Baruch College.
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