Braun, Sebastian; Mahmoud, Toman Omar - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War … II. The expellees were forced to relocate to post-war Germany. They represented a complete cross-section of society, were … West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however …