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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants : Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in …
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Immigration and Crimes Against Natives : The 2015 Refugee Crisis in Germany
Huang, Yue - 2019
In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives would rise. Using novel county-level data, we study this question empirically in first-difference and 2SLS regressions. Our results do not support the view that Germans were...
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Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany
Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2022
This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes...
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The Evils of Forced Migration : Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?
Falck, Oliver - 2011
foster their labor market integration. We evaluate the success of this law using unique retrospective individual-level panel …. This holds implications for the design of integration policies today …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122685
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The Labour Market Integration of Refugee and Family Reunion Immigrants : A Comparison of Outcomes in Canada and Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter - 2012
This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099094
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Income Inequality and Health : Lessons from a Refugee Residential Assignment Program
Gronqvist, Hans - 2012
This paper examines the effect of income inequality on health for a group of particularly disadvantaged individuals: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with a settlement policy where Swedish authorities assigned newly arrived refugees to their first area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106015
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Improving the Integration of Refugees : An Early Evaluation of a Swedish Reform
Andersson, Pernilla - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012017
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Economic Integration of Intermarried Labour Migrants, Refugees and Family Migrants to Sweden : Premium or Selection?
Bevelander, Pieter - 2014
We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees and family migrants. We find that intermarried...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055897
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Language Training and Refugees' Integration
Nielsen Arendt, Jacob; Bolvig, Iben; Foged, Mette; … - 2021
We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after January 1, 1999. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design we find a significant, permanent, positive effect on earnings. This effect emerged after completion of language classes...
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Employment Integration of Refugees : The Influence of Local Factors on Refugee Job Opportunities in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter; Lundh, Christer - 2021
This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … contrast to most studies on immigrant economic integration primarily conducted on the national level or for the larger cities … monitoring the regional variation in employment integration of twelve refugee groups, this paper, with the use of logistic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317242