likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training …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 …

countries may reflect differences in its quality and compatibility with the host labor market. Three factors language … acquired abroad, suggesting a compound benefit of policies encouraging immigrants to obtain language and other training …

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 …

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 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 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 …

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market …

spoken by children of migrants with identical ancestral countries of origin, the analysis indicates that the presence of …

teaches the science of early language development, models verbal interaction behaviors with children, and provides objective … feedback to improve the early language environment. The intervention changes parental beliefs and impacts the quantity and …

We exploit a unique historical setting to study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education …. After World War II, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in large-scale migration. Poles were forced to move from the … were no pre-WWII differences in education, Poles with a family history of forced migration are significantly more educated …