We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched …-out across municipalities, we find that the policy increased employment by 5-6 percentage points one year after arrival and 10 …

Denmark while also temporarily lowering welfare benefits for a subgroup of them. The policy change applied to those who … obtained refugee status in Denmark on or after January 1, 1999. Using a regression discontinuity design around the cutoff date … we find that employment and earnings gradually diverged for the treated group after completion of the language program …

This paper estimates, within a common framework, the effects of four types of integration polices on the employment … probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible … countries. We then describe the dynamics of labor market outcomes of several cohorts of refugees in Denmark. To our knowledge …

Denmark. The first reform, implemented in 2002, lowered benefits for non-EU immigrants by about 50%, with no changes for …

We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self-selection of migrants than previously realized … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and non-migrants. We use the Danish … emigrants in terms of pre-emigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …