Labor Market Assimilation of Refugees in the United States: Are They Worse Off?

Authors

Lily Chang, Illinois Wesleyan UniversityFollow

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate how refugees perform in the US labor market in relation to economic immigrants and natives, and hence evaluate the effectiveness of the US humanitarian resettlement program. It is organized in the following order: literature review, theoretical model, data and methodology, descriptive statistics analysis, empirical model and results, and conclusion.

Recommended Citation

Chang, Lily (2018) "Labor Market Assimilation of Refugees in the United States: Are They Worse Off?," The Park Place Economist: Vol. 26
Available at: https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/parkplace/vol26/iss1/11