Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden …

This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … market and economic sector factors on the refugees' odds of being employed. The local variations of refugees' integration … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees' chances to …

In the 2015 refugee crisis, nearly one million refugees came to Germany, raising concern that crimes against natives … results do not support the view that Germans were victimized in greater numbers by refugees as measured by their rate of …

: refugees. Our analysis draws on longitudinal hospitalization records coupled with a settlement policy where Swedish authorities … assigned newly arrived refugees to their first area of residence. The policy was implemented in a way that provides a source of …

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 …

establishment of refugees and their family. From December 1, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of … newly‐arrived refugees from the municipalities to the government funded Public Employment Service through which those … employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the outcomes of the Treatment group, which took …

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees … and female irregular migrants are positively self-selected with respect to human capital, while male irregular migrants …

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 …

documented experiences regarding this group of children. The main focus is on Sweden, the European country that has received most …

and the determinants of these sentiments is presented. Natives in countries that receive predominantly refugee migrants …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …