The fl ight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their off spring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even...

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their off spring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even...

Migration poses many challenges for those involved. This not only includes labor market integration or the acquisition of language skills, they must also establish new social contacts in a foreign living environment. The IAB-SOEP Migration Sample allows us to study this social integration by...

Migration stellt die betroffenen Personen vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen. Dazu gehört nicht nur die Arbeitsmarktintegration oder der Erwerb von Sprachkompetenz. Sie müssen auch neue soziale Kontakte in einem fremden Lebensumfeld aufbauen. Mit der IAB-SOEP-Migrationsstichprobe kann die...

Does 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...

In Deutschland finden die meisten Personen über FreundInnen, Bekannte und Verwandte eine Beschäftigung, wenn sie erstmals in den Arbeitsmarkt einsteigen oder ihre Anstellung wechseln. Dies gilt auch für MigrantInnen und deren Nachkommen. Geflüchtete in den Arbeitsmarkt einzugliedern wird als...

Does 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...

This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census data from 1939 to 1970, we show that the shock had a...