tightly controlled laboratory labor market experiment demonstrates that prior employment information allows employers to …We study whether employment history provides information about a worker's "work attitude," i.e., the tendency to act … attitude and that this information is transmitted through employment histories. We find support for this hypothesis across …

in employment rates than it is in wages. We also discuss how refugees are distinct in terms of other factors affecting …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 …

Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and … refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese nationals in a repeated public good game without and with punishment. We find that …

with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual …

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 …

prescribing interjurisdictional assignments of tasks for designing, financing and implementing services for refugees and their … geographic distribution have made municipalities and cities primarily responsible for solving problems of refugees’ accommodation …

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived … percentage points on employment after twelve months. These effects are concentrated among low-educated refugees and those facing … refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the …