. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh … gainful employment arm, in which work is offered and individuals are paid weekly the approximate equivalent of that in the … cash arm. We find that employment confers significant psychosocial benefits beyond the impacts of cash alone, with effects …

The United States has admitted more than 3 million refugees since 1980 through official refugee resettlement programs …, refugees arrived without formal selection processes or federal support. We examine the integration of historical refugees using … consistent with the hypothesis that refugees had greater exposure to English or more incentive to learn, due to the conditions of …

The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for both the refugees themselves … and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the lives and economic success of refugees and of their communities …. In this paper, we review the socioeconomic integration policy interventions focused on refugees and the evidence …

Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in … the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in … we find that employment and earnings gradually diverged for the treated group after completion of the language program …

This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …

counties I show that the settlement of refugees had a large and persistent effect on the size of the local population …, manufacturing employment and income per capita. I show that these findings are quantitatively consistent with an idea-based model of …

We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched … refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after basic training for those jobs. Leveraging the staggered roll …-out across municipalities, we find that the policy increased employment by 5-6 percentage points one year after arrival and 10 …