We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees … were resettled in the United States between 2005 and 2010. We address threats to identification due to sorting of refugees … into specific labor markets and to strategic placement by resettlement agencies. We find that the probability that refugees …

We investigate whether entrepreneurs in the network of refugees - from the same country of origin - help refugees … were resettled in the United States between 2005 and 2010. We address threats to identification due to sorting of refugees … into specific labor markets and to strategic placement by resettlement agencies. We find that the probability that refugees …

of refugees escaping the Holocaust and verify the validity of height as a proxy for human and health capital. We further … immigration of European refugees. …

This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects … same level of English skills. The two immigrant groups had made substantial gains by 1990; however, refugees had made …, refugees from the 1975-1980 arrival cohort earned 20 percent more, worked 4 percent more hours, and improved their English …