Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/49384 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1725
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were close substitutes to the native West German population, and were very unevenly distributed across labor market segments in West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however, limited to labor market segments with very high inflow rates. IV regressions that exploit variation in geographical proximity and in pre-war occupations confirm the OLS results.
Subjects: 
Forced migration
native employment
post-war Germany
JEL: 
J61
J21
C36
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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