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

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 …

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 …

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum …-receiving countries and for the refugees themselves …