We study the short- and long-term economic and social integration of European war refugees. The population under study … left former Yugoslavia for Sweden in the early 1990s. In the first years, there were significant human capital investments … in language training, adult education, and active labor market programs. The Yugoslav refugees then exhibited a …

We study the economic and social integration of refugee children. The analysis follows war refugees arriving from … former Yugoslavia to Sweden in the early 1990s for up to 25 years. We find strong educational and economic integration … migration had grades and high school completion on par with natives. Poor initial school performance among teenage refugees was …

such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities …

Many developed countries, e.g. the UK, Germany, and Sweden, use or have used settlement policies to direct the inflow …

We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …

residences and workplaces in Sweden, we find that having been placed in a location with poor job access in 1990–91 adversely …

: 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 …