this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …

this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …

In this study, we evaluate the effectiveness of the participation of refugees in integration programmes intended to … help them gain employment. The specific programmes considered are the Competence Check programme and the Integration Year … programme that were introduced in Austria around the time of the 2015 crisis, when refugees poured from the Middle East into the …