20 Jahre nach der Deutschen Einheit haben sich die Lebensverhältnisse und die wirtschaftliche Grundlage Ostdeutschlands in vielen Bereichen denen Westdeutschlands angenähert. Angesichts dieses Jahrestages und vor dem Hintergrund der sich im Herbst 2008 verschärfenden globalen Finanzkrise...

Zwischen Abwehr und Imagefaktor - Deutsche Unternehmen und ihre Auseinandersetzung mit der eigenen Geschichte. Von den Nürnberger Wirtschaftsprozessen bis zu den Verhandlungen um Zwangsarbeiterentschädigungen - deutsche Konzerne haben stets versucht, das öffentliche Bild von ihrer...

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their off spring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even...

Using novel registry data on the population of asylum seekers in Germany for the period from 2010 to 2016, and quasi-experimental variation induced by German allocation policies, we identify causal effects of the size and composition of local co-national networks on formal labor market access of...

We apply difference-in-differences regressions to study the impact of the 2015 refugee crisis in Germany on the culturally closer diaspora of existing immigrants originating from Turkey and Middle-Eastern and North-African countries (TMENA). Our identification allows us to emphasize the role of...

Following one of the largest displacements in human history, almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how the settlement location of migrants affected their economic, social and political integration in West Germany. We first document large...