Limbo or Leverage? Asylum Waiting and Refugee Integration

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We study the impact of asylum waiting, exploiting a rapid increase in processing times for asylum seekers to Sweden. Longer waiting slows down integration. Accumulated earnings during the first four years after application are 2.3 percent lower per added month of waiting. The impact is due to delay rather than negative effects of waiting per se. There is no evidence of detrimental effects on psychiatric or other forms of health. From the date of asylum, those who have waited longer perform better in the labor market and are more likely to start advanced language training and labor market programs.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 15063

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; International Migration ; Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Subject: asylum waiting ; labor market ; health

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Aslund, Olof ; Engdahl, Mattias ; Rosenqvist, Olof
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2022

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/252187
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET