![]() Studies show that refugees face significant barriers in the labor market. In the past decades, the size of the refugee population in Europe has increased considerably. ![]() When refugees are kept in an asylum center for a longer time, they are less likely to invest in post-migration education. Results show that post-migration schooling is more common among adult refugees who are higher educated, who arrived at a younger age, who have applied for recognition of their foreign education, and who have (successfully) participated in integration and/or language courses. I find that refugees’ investments in schooling depend on both pre- and post-migration characteristics. I contribute to the literature by analyzing survey data from the Netherlands on post-migration education among more than 3,000 adult refugees who come from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, former Yugoslavia, and Somalia. Post-migration education can increase refugees’ chances in the labor market, but little is known about the prevalence and underlying patterns of such post-secondary educational investments. ![]() ![]() Refugees face significant barriers in the labor markets of western countries due to limited transferability of educational credentials. 2Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, KNAW/University of Groningen, The Hague, Netherlands.1Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands. ![]()
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