Der Beitrag der Vertriebenen und Flüchtlinge zum Wachstum der westdeutschen Wirtschaft nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

Ambrosius, Gerold

doi:10.1524/jbwg.1996.37.2.39

“…As West German economic growth soared in the 1950s, however, unemployment fell quickly and was virtually nonexistent by 1960 36 . In fact, expellees soon provided an important labor reservoir for the booming postwar industry and thus arguably made an important contribution to West Germany's economic miracle ( Wirtschaftswunder ) (Ambrosius 1996). Therefore, we expect the negative employment effect of the expellee influx to have been only short-lived.…”

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The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Postwar Germany

Braun

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,

Mahmoud

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2014

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. 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. Terms of use: Documents inKeywords: Forced migration, native employment, post-war Germany JEL classification: J61, J21, C36 Sebastian Braun AbstractThis 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.

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“…In fact, from the mid‐1950s onwards, labour was already in increasingly high demand. Forced migrants provided an important labour reservoir for the booming post‐war industry and prevented labour shortages (Ambrosius, ). It is for this reason that migrants are considered an important element of Germany's rapid recovery after the war, a recovery that led contemporaries in the 1960s and 1970s to view the integration of displaced Germans as a success story (Lüttinger, ).…”

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post‐War Germany

Bauer

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,

Braun

²

,

Kvasnicka

³

2013

The Economic Journal

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“…The Mittelstand was crucial to the development of structurally weak regions such as Bavaria and Hesse in post-war times (Ambrosius 1996). The…”

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Family Firms and Regional Innovation Activity: Evidence from the German Mittelstand

Block

¹

,

Spiegel

²

2011

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Der Beitrag der Vertriebenen und Flüchtlinge zum Wachstum der westdeutschen Wirtschaft nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

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The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Postwar Germany

The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Postwar Germany

The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post‐War Germany

Family Firms and Regional Innovation Activity: Evidence from the German Mittelstand

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