Foged, Mette; Kreuder, Janis; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 … percentage points two years after. The policy was especially effective for male refugees and refugees with some secondary …