A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group on European labour … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Pro-grammes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. Using a meta … combat immigrant unemployment: training, job search assistance, and subsidised public and private sector employment. We find …

) work for immigrants. From the existing literature, we identify 24 research papers estimating 79 short-run treatment effects … of ALMPs on immigrants. We perform a meta-analysis of these findings based on the sign and significance of the estimates …. This allows us to present quantitative evidence for the relative effectiveness for immigrants of different types of ALMPs …

A growing body of programme evaluation literature recognises immigrants as a disadvantaged group in European labour … markets and investigates the employment effects of Active Labour Market Programmes (ALMPs) on this subgroup. So far, however …, there is no systematic review establishing which ALMPs are effective for immigrants. Using a meta-analysis, we condense 93 …

A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June … introduced, flexible language instruction parallel with other labor market activities at the Public Employment Service (PES) and …, newly-arrived immigrants were randomly assigned into TIP (treatment) or regular introduction programs (control). Results …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … information on job search strategies that immigrants derive from the interaction with their classmates and teachers during classes. …

We examine the impact of language training on the economic integration of immigrants in France. The assignment to this … with a discussion of the candidate mechanisms for the improved labor market participation of immigrants. …

the case before. Interestingly, the employment integration of immigrants has declined gradually, and in 2006 the … explore the link between citizenship and employment probabilities for immigrants in Sweden, controlling for a range of … for immigrants from Asia and Africa. These are also the countries that have the lowest employment rate. -- Immigration …

We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing … Europe. -- immigrants ; temporary agency employment ; stepping stone …-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, particularly for non-western immigrants and immigrants …

We estimate the effect of active labour market programmes on the exit rate to regular employment for non …-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We … largest for subsidized employment programmes, but effects are also large and significant for direct employment programmes and …

We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing …-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, particularly for non-western immigrants and immigrants … arriving during childhood. Post-treatment effects are fairly high for male non-western immigrants and immigrants from Eastern …