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 … a large archive of recorded oral history interviews to understand linguistic attainment of migrants who arrived in the …

Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several European countries. They are more … likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training … for adult refugees and improved their economic integration, had significant intergenerational spillover effects in terms …

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 … young vs. older immigrants, and we quantify explanatory factors like education, language fluency, and persistence from … during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that …

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new … are immigrants. We utilize the Annual Business Survey to quantify the greater rates of patenting and innovation in …

the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in … children of refugees who received enhanced language classes were more likely to complete lower secondary school and less likely …Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in …

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 …

Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an … environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …

migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of … this initial stage of the migrants' history shows that Italians who moved to Argentina were positively selected on the …

probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible … identification strategy to evaluate the causal effects of these types of policies on the assimilation of refugees in developed … countries. We then describe the dynamics of labor market outcomes of several cohorts of refugees in Denmark. To our knowledge …