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Improving Refugees’ Welfare and Integration: Evidence from Uganda

Kampala, Wakiso and Mukono, Sample 550, Aug-Oct, 2022

Provide evidence on how to solve frictions that prevent the private sector of host countries from assisting temporarily or permanently displaced people.

Examine the effectiveness of an employment subsidy as an affirmative policy to favor labor market integration of minority groups and to increase social cohesion.

Test the usefulness of skills certification for forced migrants looking for jobs in their host country.

Contribute to the literature on willingness-to-pay as a method to provide a market price on the effect of the proposed policies.

Understand if working together can also promote social cohesion between refugees and local workers