Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/240515 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IFN Working Paper No. 1372
Publisher: 
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm
Abstract: 
This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1) intensive initial language training, (2) work practice under close supervision, (3) job search assistance, and (4) extended cooperation between the local public sector and firms. An important feature of the program is that the demand side of the labor market, represented by the largest real estate company in Gothenburg, is involved in designing the program. Our evaluation is based on a randomized controlled trial, where potential participants in one of the first waves were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups. The paper presents results from the first two years after randomization. Using inference based on Fisher's exact test, we show that the program has positive effects on employment: around 30% of the individuals in the treatment group are employed each month during the first year following the end of the program, compared to an average of approximately 15% in the control group.
Subjects: 
Refugee immigration
Integration
Randomized experiment
Labor market program
JEL: 
C93
J08
J15
J23
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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