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 …

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 …

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 …

This study deals with a specific volunteering aspect revealed in the German refugee crisis 2015/16. German federalism … 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 …

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 …

experiment. We examine the impact of three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes of Syrian refugees and … of all treatments for refugees at the two-month follow-up, and suggestive evidence of four-month impacts for the cash … grant; liquidity appears to be a key barrier to employment for refugees …

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and … Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and … irregular migrants for multiple origin and destination countries. Refugees and female irregular migrants are positively self …

Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained … in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees … attained in Austria vis-Ã -vis Bosnia on labour market outcomes for refugees aged around schooling thresholds. These estimates …