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Forced Migration and Refugees : Policies for Successful Economic and Social Integration

Bahar, Dany; Brough, Rebecca J.; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The inflow of refugees and their subsequent integration can be an important challenge for both the refugees themselves and the host society. Policy interventions can improve the lives and economic success of refugees and of their communities. In this paper, we review the socioeconomic...

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Comparing the Effects of Policies for the Labor Market Integration of Refugees

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper estimates, within a common framework, the effects of four types of integration polices on the employment probability and earnings of refugees in Denmark during the last three decades. We first review the studies that use a credible identification strategy to evaluate the causal...

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Immigration's Effect on US Wages and Employment Redux

Caiumi, Alessandro; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In this article we revive, extend and improve the approach used in a series of influential papers written in the 2000s to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the analysis to include the more recent years 2000-2022....

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Gender Differences in Negotiations and Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from an Information Intervention with College Students

Cortés, Patricia; French, Jacob; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We assess the role of information gaps in understanding gender differences in negotiation behavior by conducting a …. Prior to starting their job search, treated students were provided with objective information about the gender gap in … information. Further, we find some evidence that gender-specific treatment spillovers likely contribute to the smaller average …

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Automation and Gender : Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap

Cortés, Patricia; Feng, Ying; Guida-Johnson, Nicolás; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College …

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Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S

Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Exposure to information on peer beliefs leads to a shift in …

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Immigration, Household Production, and Native Women's Labor Market Outcomes : A Survey of a Global Phenomenon

Cortés, Patricia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

supply of high-skilled native women, has helped narrow the gender earnings gap in high-paying powered occupations, and that …

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Integrating Refugees : Language Training or Work-First Incentives?

Arendt, Jacob Nielsen - 2020

Social and economic integration of refugees are key to their personal fulfillment and to producing positive effects in the host country. We evaluate the impact of a reform that expanded and improved early language classes to refugees in Denmark while also temporarily lowering welfare benefits...

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Integrating Refugees by Addressing Labor Shortages? A Policy Evaluation

Foged, Mette; Kreuder, Janis; Peri, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We evaluate the effect on newly arrived refugees' employment of a policy, introduced in Denmark in 2013, that matched refugees to occupations with local labor shortages after basic training for those jobs. Leveraging the staggered roll-out across municipalities, we find that the policy increased...

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Intergenerational Spillover Effects of Language Training for Refugees

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Peri, Giovanni; Nielson … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

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 show that a reform in Denmark in 1999, that expanded language training for adult refugees and improved their economic...

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