News Finding: The more successful refugees are where they settle, the more welcoming locals are likely to be in the future.
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: Aside from improving individual lives, machine matching also has the potential of helping refugees overall. The more successful refugees are where they settle, the more welcoming locals are likely to be in the future. The researchers' team is in talks with resettlement agencies in both the US and Switzerland to test the algorithm in pilot programs with actual cases.
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.