Is naturalization an effective tool to boost refugees' labor market integration? We address this novel empirical … citizen status allows refugees to close their gaps in labor market outcomes relative to non-refugee migrants while having non …

This paper examines changes in public attitudes towards refugees across Britain over almost three decades using data … refugees. This suggests that rising levels of immigration and asylum, a political discourse which positioned asylum as a …

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on … percent of communities hosted refugees at the time of the election, exposure to refugees varied at the local level. To account … for the potential endogeneity in the distribution of refugees, I use pre-existing group accommodations as instrumental …

where refugees are being accommodated. Refugee camps are geographically concentrated near the Syrian border, which enables … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees … evidence of refugees crowding out natives in local labor markets. …

facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the … was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the …

This paper examines the effects of a government regularization program offered to half a million Venezuelan refugees in … Colombia. For this purpose, 2,232 surveys of refugee families were collected and used to compare refugees who arrived in … vulnerability and awards public transfers (40 pp), and financial services (64.3 pp), relative to other refugees. The program also …

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a … threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and …