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Jacob Nielsen Arendt

Jacob Nielsen Arendt

Research Fellow

Rockwool Foundation Research Unit

jar@rff.dk

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Jacob Nielsen Arendt is Research Professor and the Head of Labour Market Research at the ROCKWOOL Foundation Research Unit in Copenhagen.
His research interests include migration economics, active labor market policy and the returns to education. He has published in several academic journals including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Population Economics and the Journal of Public Economics.
He received his PhD in economics in 1999 from the University of Copenhagen, and was employed as Associate Professor in Health Economics at University of Southern Denmark and as Professor and Program Director at the Danish Center for Social Science Research, before he joined the Rockwool Foundation in 2017.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16313

Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants' Skill Investment

Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Christian Dustmann, Hyejin Ku

published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2025, 43 (2), 293-318

IZA Discussion Paper No. 15497

Refugee Migration and the Labor Market: Lessons from 40 Years of Post-arrival Policies in Denmark

Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Christian Dustmann, Hyejin Ku

published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, 38 (3), 531-556

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14145

Language Training and Refugees' Integration

Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Iben Bolvig, Mette Foged, Linea Hasager, Giovanni Peri

published online in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 23 June 2023 (adults) and as 'Intergenerational spillover effects of language training for refugees' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104840 (children / intergenerational effects)