To mitigate the impact of the 2008-2010 global financial crisis on vulnerable households, the Government of Latvia … dearth of income-generating opportunities in Latvia; thus the program provided temporary employment opportunities and helped … the unemployed mitigate the impact of the crisis. However, relative to the depth of the crisis in Latvia, the Workplaces …

Migrants are typically self-selected from the population of their home country. While a large literature has identified … counterfactual in which the same number of migrants are neutrally selected. In both periods, we find virtually no aggregate effect in …

Sweden did not apply any transitional rules for migrants coming from the ten new European Union member states in May …). The composition of the migrants changed. While earlier many more women than men arrived, now the gender composition is …