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The Employment Effects of Immigration: Evidence from the Mass Arrival of German Expellees in Post-war Germany
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 close substitutes to the native West German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276115
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries.
Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
argue that migration pressure combined with informal migration patterns and incomplete information are the key determinants …, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. The main result is in line with our expectations: Migrant families in high-migration areas and … indicate that illegal migration increases trafficking risks and that awareness campaigns and a reduction of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955680
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Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-war Germany
Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887005
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The Economic Drivers of Human Trafficking: Micro-Evidence from Five Eastern European Countries
Mahmoud, Toman Omar; Trebesch, Christoph - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
argue that migration pressure combined with informal migration patterns and incomplete information are the key determinants …, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine. The main result is in line with our expectations: Migrant families in high migration areas and … indicate that illegal migration increases trafficking risks and that awareness campaigns and a reduction of information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755119