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 …

immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between …

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 …

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 …

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 …