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...

Introduction : diasporic return and migration studies / Takeyuki Tsuda -- Why does the diaspora return home? : the causes of ethnic return migration / Takeyuki Tsuda -- Defining nations in Asia and Europe : a comparative analysis of ethnic return migration policy / John Skrentny, Stephanie Chan,...