Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247124 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 194
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
The "refugee gap" in the economic status of refugees relative to other migrants might be due to the experience of being a refugee, or to government policy, which often denies the right to work during lengthy application processes. In Denmark before the Second World War, however, refugees were not treated differently from other migrants, motivating our use of a database of the universe of Danish naturalizations between 1851 and 1960. We consider labor market performance and find that immigrants leaving conflicts fared no worse than other migrants, conditional on other characteristics, within this relatively homogenous sample of those who attained citizenship. Refugees must be provided with the same rights as other migrants if policy aims to ensure their economic success.
Subjects: 
Asylum policy
Denmark
immigration
naturalizations
refugee gap
JEL: 
F22
J61
N33
N34
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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