Ensure bigger economic benefits from immigration?
To ensure bigger economic benefits from immigration, for example through higher
productivity and better attachment to the labour market, and thereby lower long-term
budgetary costs of benefit dependency, the refugees need to be integrated quickly.
This requires upfront spending, for which the government has appropriately budgeted
substantial resources. Experience across OECD countries suggests that the
following policies are important to improve their labour market prospects (OECD, 2016):
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