This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees … data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a … threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and …

We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States …

Introduction: what have we learned about the problems of and prospects for disadvantaged youth? / Jonathan Gruber … -- Education : the behavioral consequences of pre-kindergarten participation for disadvantaged youth / David Figlio and Jeffrey … Berry Cullen and Brian A. Jacob -- Would more compulsory schooling help disadvantaged youth? : evidence from recent changes …

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 … percentage points two years after. The policy was especially effective for male refugees and refugees with some secondary …

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 … benefits, but we find evidence of temporarily higher property crime when refugees received lower benefits. We also find that …

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 …

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 …

Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more … for adult refugees and improved their economic integration, had significant intergenerational spillover effects in terms …

France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden called, Come-Here, for 2020-2023, plus data from International Social Survey Program …

and transferred to West Germany. This inflow increased the German population by almost 20%. Using variation across … counties I show that the settlement of refugees had a large and persistent effect on the size of the local population …