This paper reviews, reanalyzes, and extends to the long run the estimated effects of
integration polices on the employment probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark. We …

We study the effect of local unemployment and attitudes towards immigrants at the time of
arrival on refugees' multi-dimensional integration outcomes. We leverage a centralized …

Although Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally, we know little about their
labor-market outcomes at the national level. This study uses the 2018 round of the Turkey …

This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees.
Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects but also …

Children of refugees are among the most economically disadvantaged youth in several
European countries. They are more likely to drop out of school and to commit crime. We find …

This chapter, prepared for the Handbook of Labor Economics, presents a comprehensive
overview of how labor economists understand job search among the unemployed and how …

This paper examines whether language classes raise refugees' language proficiency and
improve their socio-economic integration. Our identification strategy leverages the opening …

This paper estimates the economic gains from proficiency in the host country's language on
migrants' employment outcomes by exploiting the exogenous placement of refugees to …

This study investigates how local integration strategies that prioritize a work-first approach
affect refugee's participation in language courses and their medium run labor market …

We consider a model in which each individual belonging to an ethnic minority group is
embedded in a network of relationships and decides whether she wants to be integrated in …