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Integrating Refugees : Language Training or Work-First Incentives?
Arendt, Jacob Nielsen - 2020
Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in … the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in … benefits, but we find evidence of temporarily higher property crime when refugees received lower benefits. We also find that …
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Immigrants' effect on native workers : new analysis on longitudinal data
Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
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...
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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success
Battisti, Michele - 2018
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success
Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 132 (2022) 641, pp. 58-88
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Language Training and Refugees' Integration
Nielson 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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Immigrants' effect on native workers : new analysis on longitudinal data
Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010505828
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The labor market effects of a refugee wave : applying the synthetic control method to the Mariel Boatlift
Peri, Giovanni; Yasenov, Vasil - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429349
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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success
Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018
This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011862884
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Dynamic effects of co-ethnic networks on immigrants' economic success
Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518715
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The labor market effects of a refugee wave : synthetic control method meets the Mariel Boatlift
Peri, Giovanni; Yasenov, Vasil - 2017
We apply the Synthetic Control Method to re-examine the effects of the Mariel Boatlift, a large inflow of Cubans into Miami in 1980, first studied by David Card (1990). This method improves on previous studies by choosing a control group so as to best match Miami's labor market features before...
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