The local environment shapes refugee integration : evidence from post-war Germany
Abstract
This paper studies how the local environment in receiving counties affected the economic, social, and political integration of the eight million expellees who arrived in West Germany after World War II. We first document that integration outcomes differed dramatically across West German counties. We then show that more industrialized counties and counties with low expellee inflows were much more successful in integrating expellees than agrarian counties and counties with high inflows. Religious differences between native West Germans and expellees had no effect on labor market outcomes, but reduced inter-marriage rates and increased the local support for anti-expellee parties.
Citation
Braun , S T & Dwenger , N 2018 ' The local environment shapes refugee integration : evidence from post-war Germany ' School of Economics and Finance Discussion Paper , no. 1711 , University of St Andrews , St Andrews .
ISSN
0962-4031Type
Working or discussion paper
Rights
Copyright (c)2017, the authors
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The research in this paper was funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (grant no. BR 4979/1-1, “Die volkswirtschaftlichen Effekte der Vertriebenen und ihre Integration in Westdeutschland, 1945-70”).Collections
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