Managing Refugee Protection Crises: Policy Lessons from Economics and Political Science

Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies: Evidence from Finland’S Integration Plans

“…Earlier work has found that integration programs implemented as part of ALMP can improve adult immigrants' later income and employment (Åslund and Johansson, 2011;Joona and Nekby, 2012;Sarvimäki and Hämäläinen, 2016;Battisti et al, 2019;Lochmann et al, 2019;Dahlberg et al, 2020;Arendt et al, 2021;Heller and Slungaard Mumma, 2020;Foged and van der Werf, 2022). The effects of these integration programs tend to be substantially larger than what is typically found in evaluations of ALMP for natives (Card et al, 2018;Hangartner et al, 2021). Another branch of research has shown that interventions implemented in schools can have large positive effects on immigrants' children through career counseling (Goux et al, 2017;Carlana et al, 2021), decreased implicit bias of teachers (Alesina et al, 2019), increased parental involvement (Avvisati et al, 2014), and improved perspective-taking ability among students (Alan et al, 2021).…”