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 …

-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse … economic and social integration. These impacts are largest for groups targeted by AfD campaigns and refugees are also more …

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 …

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that … covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that … language learning in the EU is strongly associated with immigration. Instead, immigration by non-EU citizens in associated with …

first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite … migrations, contrasting economic and refugee migrants, discussing the trade-offs between long-term asylum and temporary …, we illustrate the economic integration of past refugee migrants to EU countries and conclude with several policy …

the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper we are concerned with international migration and health outcomes in … insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …. Namely, immigrants arrive with better health compared to natives and their health deteriorates with longer residence in the …

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 …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … migrants and refugees relative to family migrants, for men and individuals below the median age, and for individuals with … test score of an initial language exam is below a certain threshold. This eligibility rule creates a discontinuity in the …

We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is … the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of … undistorted immigrants’ job mobility and resulting unconstrained assimilation. Rich administrative data allows us to follow …