employment opportunities

This study looks at how volunteering by refugees increases their chances of obtaining paid work. The analyzed data confirms that refugees with advanced level English and British qualifications are most likely to get regular jobs, but that volunteering is important for references, for gaining work experience in Britain, and for gaining confidence and positively impacts refugee employment.

This chapter analyzes home reconstruction in urban India, where the challenges include high population densities, high land values, the distance between place of resettlement and place of work, and the loss of employment opportunities.

This chapter addresses the implications of China's shift from a command to a market economy for resettlement operations.

The enterprise known as Trepca is a sprawling conglomerate of some 40 mines and factories, located mostly in Kosovo. This report examines the current position of the mines, together with the associated smelting complex at nearby Zvecan. It considers their great economic and symbolic significance in the reconstruction process.