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 …

This article studies the importance of local conditions for the employment integration of refugees in Sweden, this in … market and economic sector factors on the refugees' odds of being employed. The local variations of refugees' integration … and employment rates, a proxy for the local supply of jobs, significantly affected the individual refugees' chances to …

and labor migrants of the same arrival cohort.The analysis shows that refugees take significantly longer to enter their …This paper examines the labor market trajectories of refugees who arrived in Belgium between 2003 and 2009. Belgium has … offered relatively easy formal labor market access to refugees but they face many other barriers in its strongly regulated and …

Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in … West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a quarter of a century after displacement, first generation migrants … and native West Germans that were comparable before the war perform strikingly different. Migrants have substantially …

immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … being also the case for each of the three groups of labour migrants, refugees and family migrants. Our findings provide … Sweden. They also fully support the selection hypothesis for labour and family migrants but only partially for refugees …

How does easing the economic integration of forced migrants affect native voting behaviors in the Global South? This … paper assesses how the regularization of half a million Venezuelan forced migrants affected the electoral choices of … supports forced migrants. The findings show negligible impacts on native voting behavior. The study then conducted a survey …

and the determinants of these sentiments is presented. Natives in countries that receive predominantly refugee migrants …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …