Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35563 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4003
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We study the long-term effects of human displacement using individual-level panel data on forced migrants and comparable non-migrants. After World War II, Finland ceded a tenth of its territory to the Soviet Union and resettled the entire population living in these areas in the remaining parts of the country. We find that displacement increased the long-term income of men, but had no effect on that of women. We attribute a large part of the effect to faster transition from traditional (rural) to modern (urban) occupations among the displaced.
Subjects: 
Migration
displaced persons
regional labor markets
JEL: 
J60
O15
R23
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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