economic integration of refugees. We leverage a natural experiment in Germany, where a court ruling prompted a reduction in the … percentage points lower for refugees who, upon arrival, had to wait for an additional seven months before they were allowed to … employment bans considerably slowed down the economic integration of refugees and reduced their motivation to integrate early on …

into relocation to another municipality by joint estimation of the duration of the first non-employment spell and time … until relocation. The main estimation results are as follows: First, the hazard rate into first job is increasing in the … emphasize that refugees should be dispersed in big clusters of refugees of the same ethnic origin across regions with low …

geographical mobility rates of refugees and, for a sufficiently large local reservation wage effect, decrease their job …