
Abstract
After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans — so called expellees — were forced to leave their homelands and settle within the new borders of West Germany. Subsequently, a law (Federal Expellee Law) was introduced to foster their labor market integration. We evaluate this law by comparing the employment situation between expellees and groups of West Germans and GDR refugees over time. We define our comparison groups to uncover even small effects of the law. Still, we find no evidence that the law met its goal to foster the expellees’ labor market integration.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Form of publication: | Publisher's Version |
Keywords: | forced migration, integration policy, Germany, post-WWII |
Faculties: | Economics |
Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 310 Statistics 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-15915-7 |
ISSN: | 1935-1682 |
Alliance/National Licence: | This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively. |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 15915 |
Date Deposited: | 15. Jul 2013, 13:56 |
Last Modified: | 04. Nov 2020, 12:57 |