What's The Best Way To Help Refugees Land A Job?
Stanford University's Immigration Policy Lab has created an algorithm to predict where a refugee has the best chance of finding employment.
It wouldn't make any sense to send a French-speaking refugee to a German-speaking town in Switzerland.
But under Switzerland's current system of placing refugees, that's a situation that can easily happen. This problem isn't unique to Switzerland, and it's not the only kind of mismatch that might happen.
The solution, says a new study from Stanford University's Immigration Policy Lab and ETH Zurich, is the creation of an "" — in layman's terms, the set of rules given to a computer that will enable it to reach a specific goal. The algorithm described in the , uses data to predict where a refugee — or one person in a family of refugees — has the best
