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The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

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  • Falck, Oliver
  • Heblich, Stephan
  • Link, Susanne

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Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when forced to leave their homelands and settle within the new borders of West Germany. Subsequently, a law was introduced to foster their labor market integration. We evaluate the success of this law using unique retrospective individual-level panel data. We find that the law improved expellees' overall situation but failed to restore their pre-war occupation status. This holds implications for the design of integration policies today.

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Paper provided by University of Stirling, Division of Economics in its series Stirling Economics Discussion Papers with number 2011-14.

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Keywords: Germany; Difference-in-Differences; Integration policy; Forced Migrati on;

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  1. Oliver Falck & Christina Guenther & Stephan Heblich & William R. Kerr, 2013. "From Russia with love: the impact of relocated firms on incumbent survival," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 13(3), pages 419-449, May.
  2. Braun, Sebastian & Kvasnicka, Michael, 2012. "Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany," IZA Discussion Papers 6690, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).

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