Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …

This policy brief assesses the potential of entrepreneurship to be used as a tool for the integration of refugees into … opportunities created by their situation. It also discusses different policy approaches used to support refugees in business …

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a … threat index that integrates contemporaneous and historical variables. On average, refugees assimilate both culturally and …

The study analyses data collected among a group of young male refugees who participated in a randomized experiment …. Refugees were randomly assigned to a soccer project, which aimed at facilitating labour market integration, or to a control …

immigrant‐native employment and social insurance differentials by admission class and by years since entry. For refugees and … family immigrants from low‐income source countries, we uncover encouraging signs of labor market integration during an …

The issues of the forced migration and integration of refugees in the EU society and labour markets are high on the … policy agenda. Apart from humanitarian aspects, a sustainable integration of accepted refugees is important also for social …

employing a minimum share of Syrian refugees. The use of trade preferences to encourage the labour market integration of … refugees is consistent with the new, developmental approach to refugee protection advocated by the recent literature and …

, refugees are particularly vulnerable to mental health problems. At the same time, their access to adequate healthcare and other … high share of refugees (32%) to have moderate or severe mental health problems. In particular, young refugees (15-34 years …

The issues of the forced migration and integration of refugees in the EU society and labour markets are high on the … policy agenda. Apart from humanitarian aspects, a sustainable integration of accepted refugees is important also for social …

Refugees are more likely to develop mental diseases as most of them have been exposed to potentially traumatic events … a high share of refugees (31% in 2017/2018, declining to 26% in 2022) who showed moderate or severe levels of mental …