Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/297013 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2023:23
Publisher: 
Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU), Uppsala
Abstract: 
This study uses a randomized control trial (RCT) to evaluate a new program for increased labor market integration of refugees. The program has immediate and substantial short-run effects on employment, corresponding to around 15 percentage points. The effect lasts for three years but eventually fades out, as the control group catches up and reaches the long-run employment level of about 50 percent. We show that the program boosts language skills in the short run, and that this channel explains an increasing share of the effect on employment. Using survey data, we finally measure if the program affects integration in other dimensions, such as psychological, social, political, and navigational integration. Our findings suggest that faster labor market integration in the short run does not lead to increased general integration in the long run.
Subjects: 
Refugee immigration
Multidimensional integration
Randomized control trial
Fieldexperiment
Labor market program
Employment
JEL: 
C93
J08
J15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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