Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/334697 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 18282
Version Description: 
This Discussion Paper updates and extends the analysis presented in IZA DP 11136: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174046
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine the consequences of political persecution under the communist regime on labor market outcomes using life history data from the Czech sample of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. The risk of persecution is instrumented using unique administrative data on the intensity of political oppression. We find strong evidence of career degradation as a consequence of persecution-driven job losses. Our estimates suggest that earnings in jobs following such a loss carried a penalty of over 60 percent that accumulated over time to substantially lower retirement benefits. We document the gravity of economic consequences for ordinary citizens persecuted by the authoritarian regime as well as effective compensating schemes implemented by democratic governments after 1989.
Subjects: 
political persecution
discrimination
wage differentials
communist regimes
life histories
JEL: 
J70
J31
N34
C21
older Version: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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