Giovanni Peri an Coauthors for the NBER

A working paper by GMC Director Giovanni Peri and coauthors Mette Foged and Janis Kreuder on the integration of refugees by addressing labor market shortages was featured on the NBER homepage. They found that Denmark's recent policy that matched refugees to occupations with local labor shortages led to higher long term employment rates for refugees, suggesting that this policy could decrease the decrease the concern of labor shortages in the long term. 

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