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dc.contributor.authorBraun, Sebastianen
dc.contributor.authorKvasnicka, Michaelen
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-10-
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-14T11:06:34Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-14T11:06:34Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/62471-
dc.description.abstractDoes immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving costs prevent the marginal product of labor to be equalized across sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output per worker within a sector. Using German district-level data from before and after the war, we find strong empirical support for these predictions.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x6690en
dc.subject.jelJ61en
dc.subject.jelJ21en
dc.subject.jelC36en
dc.subject.jelN34en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordimmigrationen
dc.subject.keywordsectoral changeen
dc.subject.keywordoutput growthen
dc.subject.keywordpost-war Germanyen
dc.subject.stwEinwanderungen
dc.subject.stwAussiedleren
dc.subject.stwStrukturwandelen
dc.subject.stwProduktivitäten
dc.subject.stwWirtschaftswachstumen
dc.subject.stwMehr-Sektoren-Modellen
dc.subject.stwSchätzungen
dc.subject.stwAlte Bundesländeren
dc.subject.stwDeutschlanden
dc.titleImmigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn719147557en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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