TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Arendt, Jacob Nielsen
AU  - Dustmann, Christian
AU  - Ku, Hyejin
        TI  - Refugee Migration and the Labor Market: Lessons from 40 Years of Post-arrival Policies in Denmark
        PY  - 2022/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15497
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp15497
        AB  - Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with excellent administrative data provides an ideal laboratory to evaluate the effects of different immigration and integration policies on the outcomes of refugee immigrants. In this article, we first describe the Danish experience with refugee immigration over the past four decades. We then review different post-arrival refugee policies and summarize studies that evaluate their effects on the labor market performance of refugees. Lastly, we discuss and contrast these findings in the context of international studies of similar policies and draw conclusions for policy.
        KW  - employment
KW  - labor supply
KW  - immigration policies
KW  - refugee integration
KW  - language
        ER  -