Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bauer, Thomas K.
• Braun, Sebastian
• Kvasnicka, Michael

Titel

The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants: Evidence for Post-War Germany

Ist Teil von

• The Economic journal (London), 2013-09, Vol.123 (571), p.998-1024

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyse the economic integration of these migrants and their offspring in West Germany. A quarter century after displacement, first-generation migrants still tend to fare worse economically. Displaced agricultural workers, however, exhibit higher incomes than comparable natives, as displacement caused large-scale transitions out of low-paid agriculture. Differences in economic outcomes of second-generation migrants resemble those of the first generation.