Arbeitspapier

The evils of forced migration: Do integration policies alleviate migrants' economic situations?

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5829

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic History: Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy: General, International, or Comparative
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Microeconomic Policy: Formulation, Implementation, and Evaluation
Thema
forced migration
integration policy
difference-in-differences
Germany

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Falck, Oliver
Heblich, Stephan
Link, Susanne
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2011

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-201107133425
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Falck, Oliver
  • Heblich, Stephan
  • Link, Susanne
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2011

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