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 …

counties I show that the settlement of refugees had a large and persistent effect on the size of the local population … that the refugee settlement increased aggregate income per capita by about 12% after 25 years and that the historical …

. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh … implications for social protection policies for the unemployed in low income countries and refugee populations globally …

We analyze the impact on crime of 3.7 million refugees who entered and stayed in Turkey as a result of the civil war in … increase in the number of refugees leads to more crime. We estimate that the influx of refugees between 2012 and 2016 generated … activity which produce the wrong inference about the refugee-crime relationship. Our results underline the need to quickly …

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

In 2015-2016 Germany experienced a wave of predominantly low-skilled refugee immigration. We evaluate its macroeconomic … substitutes in aggregate production leading to endogenous wage differentials. We simulate the dynamic effects of this refugee wave …

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 …

The number of refugees worldwide is now 12 million, up from 3 million in the early 1970s. And the number seeking asylum … of refugee displacements and asylum flows, focusing on the effects of conflict, political upheaval and economic …, particularly in Europe. Finally, we ask whether greater international coordination could produce better outcomes for refugee …

involves the possible adverse effects of incoming refugees on host communities. We examine the effects of a large refugee …The world is experiencing the second largest refugee crisis in a century, and one of the major points of contention …. We find precise zero estimated effects of refugees on the educational outcomes of incumbent students in the year of the …