News Finding: After all, having more refugees employed can also ease the financial burden on the Swiss government, cantons, and municipalities."
Paper Finding: 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.
News Context: He adds that it could also be updated at any time if the composition of refugees and labor market were to change. After all, having more refugees employed can also ease the financial burden on the Swiss government, cantons, and municipalities." "The employment gains that we're projecting are quite substantial, and these are gains that could be achieved with almost no additional cost to the governments or resettlement agencies," adds Kirk Bansak, a lead author of the study and a political science PhD student at Stanford.
Paper Context: 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. A separate model was fit for subgroups of refugees assigned to each location, thus yielding different models for each location and allowing for the discovery of refugee/location synergies.