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...

In this paper we estimate the causal effect of lowering the public income transfers administered to newly arrived refugee immigrants in Denmark - the so-called starthelp - using a competing risk mixed proportional hazard framework. The two competing risks are exit to job and exit out of the...

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...