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 …

was motived by concern over the low employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the … facilitating and speeding up the integration of refugees and their family into the labor market and the society. From December 1 …, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of newly-arrived refugees from the municipalities to the …

newly‐arrived refugees from the municipalities to the government funded Public Employment Service through which those … employment level and slow integration of refugees. Our approach is to compare the outcomes of the Treatment group, which took … establishment of refugees and their family. From December 1, 2010 the reform transferred the responsibility for the integration of …

refugees' labour market performance. Specifically, we examine the employment effects of the 2010 reform of the introduction … program (known as IP), and how the effects vary depending on refugees' educational attainment. Given that the eligibility for … identify the employment effects by comparing those who participated in the new IP (treatment group), with those who …

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 … this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …

refugees. The program has immediate and substantial short-run effects on employment, corresponding to around 15 percentage …-run employment level of about 50 percent. We show that the program boosts language skills in the short run, and that this channel … explains an increasing share of the effect on employment. Using survey data, we finally measure if the program affects …

We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched … refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after basic training for those jobs. Leveraging the staggered roll …-out across municipalities, we find that the policy increased employment by 5-6 percentage points one year after arrival and 10 …