We study the causal effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of arrival on refugees …' multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized allocation policy in Germany where refugees were … exogenously assigned to live in specific counties. Both high unemployment and negative attitudes hurt refugees' economic and …

years of employment restrictions together with individual data for refugees entering European countries between 1985 and …. These effects are not mechanical, since we exclude refugees who may still be subject to employment restrictions, are non … concentrated among less educated refugees, translate into lower occupational quality, and seem not to be driven by selective …

-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. The findings show that the integration of 12-, 14-, and 17-year-old refugees who came to Germany with … schoolbased extracurricular activities among young refugees, however, shows that these programs are not being fully exploited. In …

This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over … slightly in the last years. Austria is, however, characterised by a high share of medium skilled migrants and a low share of … highly skilled migrants. In addition among the pool of migrants in the EU from a given country, Austria generally selects the …

pays particular attention to involuntary migrants who fled conflict in their home regions beginning in the 1970s. The paper …