This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio …-economic integration. Our identification strategy leverages the opening, closing, and gradual expansion of local language training centers … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language …

Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship …. German naturalization, as of January 2000, contains an explicit language criterion for naturalization. The first German … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …

This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio …-economic integration. Our identification strategy leverages the opening, closing, and gradual expansion of local language training centers … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language …