This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees' chances to … openings. We also find that the structure of the local economy affected the refugees' probability of obtaining employment …

refugees' labour market performance. Specifically, we examine the employment effects of the 2010 reform of the introduction …Sweden, like many other European countries, has seen a surge in refugee immigrants over recent years, which raises a … program (known as IP), and how the effects vary depending on refugees' educational attainment. Given that the eligibility for …

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 …

-national networks on formal labor market access of asylum seekers. While the individual employment probability is not linked to network …

polio and the vaccine against it, (2) experiencing forced migration, studied through the case of Yugoslavian refugees in … Sweden, and (3) losing a parent during the childhood years.Since they alter the environment in which children develop, these ….For the case of forced migration, the results show that asylum-seeking children who arrived in Sweden as a consequence of the …

This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative … that refugees perform better than natives at the median wage, controlling for individual and firm characteristics. This …