This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the 1980/1990 Integrated Public Use Samples of the Census to study labor market outcomes of immigrants...

From the forword: This book gives a contemporary picture of the global character of the refugee problem. It should help to allay the false optimism which has hindered an adequate approach to the problem in recent times, despite the World Refugee Year 1959/60 and the new funds for the UN High...