Refugee migration and the labour market: lessons from 40 years of post-arrival policies in Denmark

Jacob Arendt, Christian Dustmann and Hyejin Ku

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2022, vol. 38, issue 3, 531-556

Abstract: 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 programmes, 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 labour 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.

Keywords: refugee integration; immigration policies; labour supply; employment; language (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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