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experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … local jobseekers in Jordan: one treatment to address liquidity constraints, one to address information frictions, and one to … of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash …
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refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the … refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone surveys show a positive and significant treatment effect of 13 … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing …
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This paper shows that imperfect information about school quality causes low-income families to live in neighborhoods with lower-performing, more segregated schools. We randomized the addition of school quality information onto a nationwide website of housing listings for families with housing...
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We study how job seekers respond to wage announcements by assigning wages randomly to pairs of otherwise similar vacancies in a large number of professions. High wage vacancies attract more interest, in contrast with much of the evidence based on observational data. Some applicants only show...
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We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are being affected by the covid-19 pandemic. We document several facts. First, job loss has been significantly larger than implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million...
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also …-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we …
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We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
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We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries …. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform … significant heterogeneity between host countries, but in general refugees experience persistently worse outcomes than other …
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Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and …-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …
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During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these … refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal …
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