Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33409 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1753
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use data on refugees admitted to the Netherlands that include registration of education in their homeland by immigration officers. Such data are seldom available. We investigate the quality and reliability of the registrations and then use them to assess effects on refugees' economic position during the first five years after arrival. The most remarkable finding is the absence of returns to higher education.
Subjects: 
immigrants
refugees
education
earnings
employment
JEL: 
I21
J31
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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