In the wake of the recent increase in the inflows of refugees to Europe, governments have made considerable investments in public policies aimed at facilitating the labour market integration of refugees. Despite these efforts, the labour market participation of refugees remains low. This situation raises the question of whether employers actually appreciate these public policies and whether refugees’ participation in specific active labour market policies (ALMPs), such as work practice or wage subsidies, increases their likelihood of being hired. In this article, we take a novel approach and combine employers’ evaluations of specific ALMPs with their attitudes towards refugees. We argue that these labour market policies can only be successful when employers hold positive attitudes towards refugees in the first place. We investigate this question by means of a factorial survey experiment with employers in Austria, Germany and Sweden. Our results show that, indeed, employers’ evaluations of fictional refugee candidates who participated in ALMPs are influenced by their attitudes towards this group. Participation in these policy measures is regarded positively only by those employers who already hold positive attitudes towards refugees.

在难民流入欧洲的情况最近增加之后，各国政府对旨在促进难民的劳动力市场融合的公共政策进行了大量投资。尽管作出了这些努力，难民的劳动力市场参与仍然很低。这种情况提出了一个问题，即雇主是否真正欣赏这些公共政策，以及难民是否参与诸如工作实践或工资补贴之类的具体积极的劳动力市场政策（ALMP），会增加他们被雇用的可能性。在本文中，我们采用一种新颖的方法，将雇主对特定ALMP的评估与他们对难民的态度结合起来。我们认为，只有当雇主首先对难民持积极态度时，这些劳动力市场政策才能成功。我们通过与奥地利，德国和瑞典的雇主进行的析因调查实验来调查此问题。我们的结果表明，确实，雇主对参加ALMP的虚构难民候选人的评估受到他们对该群体态度的影响。只有已经对难民持积极态度的那些雇主才积极参与这些政策措施。