The employment effects of immigration: Evidence from the mass arrival of German expellees in post-war Germany

Sebastian Braun and Toman Omar Mahmoud
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Toman Barsbai

No 1725, Kiel Working Papers from Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

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.

Keywords: Forced migration; native employment; post-war Germany (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C36 J21 J61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Journal Article: The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Postwar Germany (2014)
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