The study’s sources of data and analysis -- Holistic and interdisciplinary initiatives -- Initiatives based on an empowerment approach -- How the study was conducted -- References -- Introduction -- Employment efforts for refugees in Reykjavik, Iceland -- Vocational assessment initiatives --...

Research design: data and methods -- Descriptive analysis of employment and enrolment in education -- Descriptive analysis of participants in integration programmes -- The Oaxaca decomposition -- Participants in the Scandinavian integration programmes -- Hypotheses: discussion -- Explaining...

We present a large survey with responses from Swedish firms on their attitudes towards refugees, regarding hiring, job performance, wage setting and discrimination. Generally, firms report positive experiences of having refugees as employees, but we also document a great deal of heterogeneity in...

This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees in Sweden; different estimation methods and models...

We study the causal effects of previous experience and language skills when newly arrived refugees in Sweden apply for job openings by means of a field experiment. Applications were sent from randomly assigned fictitious Syrian refugees with experience in jobs with low skill requirements and...

This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1) intensive initial language training, (2) work practice...

This study shows that in Sweden, contrary to other European countries, refugees have been disproportionately placed in peripheral and rural areas with high unemployment and rapid native depopulation where the prospects for integration, both socially and economically, are poor. We explore and...