Local conditions and the integration of refugees | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal
Thomas Bauer, Sebastian Braun, Michael Kvasnicka About 2.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in just two years from 2015 to 2016. Compared to economic migrants, refugees typically arrive in a host country with worse language skills and less locally applicable human. They are consequently likely to start at significantly lower levels of wages and employability (Brell et al. 2020, Fasani et al. 2018). Therefore, refugees are often among the most vulnerable immigrant groups, facing the steepest barriers to economic and social integration (Martén et al. 2019). At the same...
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