Replication Data for: \"Welcome to France.'' Can mandatory integration contracts foster immigrant integration?

European governments, struggling with incorporating diverse immigrant populations, introduced integration contracts. Through language training and compulsory civics courses, these contracts aim to induce new migrants to adopt the host society's culture, respect its values, and improve their labor market outcomes. Despite their popularity, little empirical evidence exists on whether integration contracts catalyze integration or trigger a backlash. To shed light on this question, we leverage the staggered introduction of France's integration contract across metropolitan departments between 2003 and 2006 to implement a regression discontinuity design. We use census data, labor force surveys, and our own survey of refugees to estimate the effect of the contract on integration outcomes. We find the integration contract facilitated employment in the short term without backlash but did not translate into long-lasting integration gains.

欧洲各国政府在致力解决多元移民群体的融入困境时，推出了融入契约（integration contract）。此类契约通过语言培训与强制性公民教育课程，旨在促使新移民接纳东道国社会的文化、尊重其核心价值观，并改善其劳动力市场表现。尽管这类契约广受推行，但目前鲜有实证证据能够证明融入契约能够切实推动移民融入，或是反而招致抵触反弹。为厘清这一研究问题，我们借助2003年至2006年间法国在本土各省级行政区分阶段推行融入契约的政策场景，采用断点回归设计（regression discontinuity design）开展实证分析。我们使用普查数据、劳动力调查数据以及自主开展的难民调研数据集，评估融入契约对移民融入结果的影响。研究结果显示，融入契约在短期内能够促进就业且未引发抵触反弹，但并未带来长期持续的融入增益。