News Finding: It turned out that refugees with particular backgrounds or skills achieved better outcomes in some locations than others.
Paper Finding: This indicates that there are synergies between places and people; certain characteristics will make a refugee a better match for a particular location.
News Context: They found that the refugees' eventual economic self-sufficiency depended on a combination of their individual characteristics, such as education level and knowledge of English, and where they were resettled within the country. It turned out that refugees with particular backgrounds or skills achieved better outcomes in some locations than others. In 2016 alone, about 65.6 million people were forced to flee their homes.
Paper Context: Finally, the expected employment returns associated with personal characteristics can vary across different resettlement locations (Fig. This indicates that there are synergies between places and people; certain characteristics will make a refugee a better match for a particular location. In Switzerland, for example, we find that the ability to speak French (i.e., among French-speaking African refugees) results in a larger payoff for refugees assigned to Frenchspeaking cantons than for those assigned to German-speaking cantons ( fig.