Language Training and Refugees' Integration

Arbeitspapier

We evaluate a Danish reform focused on improving Danish language training for those granted refugee status on or after January 1, 1999. Using a Regression Discontinuity Design we find a significant, permanent, positive effect on earnings. This effect emerged after completion of language classes and was accompanied by additional schooling and higher probability of working in communication-intensive jobs, suggesting that language training, rather than other minor aspects of the reform, produced it. We also find evidence of higher completion rates of lower secondary school and lower probability of crime for male children with both parents exposed to the reform.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 14145

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers: General ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Incomes Policy; Price Policy ; Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: General
• Subject: refugee integration ; language skills ; regression discontinuity ; second generation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Nielsen Arendt, Jacob ; Bolvig, Iben ; Foged, Mette ; Hasager, Linea ; Peri, Giovanni
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2021

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232897
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET