Labour Market Integration of Refugees in Austria (SUF edition)

In 2015, Austria was one of the EU countries that received the most refugees in relation to its population (including Sweden, Hungary and Germany). One urgent concern for the integration of these migrants is for them to quickly achieve economic independence by integrating them into the labour market.

Successful labour market integration depends not only on formal requirements, most notably recognized qualifications and language skills, but also on the extent of integration into other areas of society, including the integration into social networks or the identification with Austrian norms and values. This is the starting point for the present project which investigates the labour market integration of refugees and the interrelation of economic, social, and cultural integration using a standardised survey combined with a number of expert interviews and problem-centered interviews among newly arrived refugees.