Long-Term Effects of Forced Migration

Matti Sarvimäki (), Roope Uusitalo and Markus Jantti

No 4003, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

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.

Keywords: regional labor markets; displaced persons; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J60 O15 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2009-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cis, nep-lab and nep-mig
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