Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …

unemployment differential and the regional migration rate. Both variables increase dramatically after the inflow and decline only … largest forced population movements in history, the mass inflow of eight million German expellees after World War II. The … model of unemployment, which is exposed to the asymmetric expellee inflow, closely fits historical data on the regional …

inequality and raises unemployment, but expected welfare gains are ensured if workers are risk neutral. And while wage inequality …