Household consumption surveys do not typically cover refugee populations, and poverty estimates for refugees are rare …. This paper tests the performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of … refugees in Chad, combining survey and administrative data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The …

performance of a recently developed cross-survey imputation method to estimate poverty for a sample of refugees in Colombia … included, inconsistencies between different data sources could interfere with comparable poverty estimates. We test the … Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. We find that certain variable transformation methods can help resolve these …

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross …-survey imputations and administrative and survey data collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Jordan. Employing …

We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after … effect emerged after completion of language classes and was accompanied by additional schooling and higher probability of … working in communication-intensive jobs, suggesting that language training, rather than other minor aspects of the reform …

This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language … training center. First, we show that refugees' distance from the assigned language training center is as good as random …

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 … their labor supply. Our findings suggest that stricter permanent residency rules, rather than incentivizing refugees' skill …

Many countries have reduced refugee admissions in recent years, in part due to fears that refugees and asylum seekers … the lowest number of refugees resettled on US soil since 1977 and a 66% drop in resettlement from 2016 to 2017. We find …

We exploit the designs of two separate U.S. refugee dispersal policies to provide causal evidence that refugees foster … first leverage the quasi-random distribution of refugees "without U.S. ties" after the enactment of the 1980 Refugee Act, to … show that outward FDI to refugees' countries of origin grew more from those U.S. commuting zones that hosted greater …

According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the number of refugees worldwide rose to 21.3 million in … 2015. Yet, resistance to the welcoming of refugees appears to have grown. The possibility that refugees may commit acts of … for these fears? We exploit the variation in the geographic and temporal distribution of refugees across U.S. counties to …