About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self … irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World …

received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on …We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their use of the German language, and their participation in local social groups. We …

closely matching patterns for immigrants’ English language proficiency …In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between … individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the … European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent … residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform … intended, the overall employment of those affected decreased while their average language proficiency remained largely …

Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also … effects of different immigration and integration policies on the outcomes of refugee immigrants. In this article, we first …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …

connecting them to the theories, policies and institutions. Return, repeat, and circular migrants are self-selected and extremely …

attitudes towards immigrants promote refugees’ economic and social integration. The results suggest that attitudes toward … immigrants are as important as local unemployment rates in shaping refugees’ integration outcomes. Using a machine learning …We study the causal effect of local labor market conditions and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on …

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the … European countries and now live elsewhere in Europe. We use the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe and apply …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …