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By Casey Weston*

European countries have designed a wide variety of national policies to improve the labor market integration of migrants. Migrant employment outcomes, however, seem uncorrelated to the intensity of these national-level strategies. On November 3^rd, the World Bank/Center for Mediterranean Integration International Labor Mobility (ILM) Program will convene a group of academics, practitioners, and policy advocates to examine barriers to migrants' labor market integration at the local level, and identify potential municipal-level policy solutions.