Western Allies in South Austria. Dismantling and pillaging, but also (sexual) crimes made regions liberated by the Red Army a …

As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four different occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight … demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration shock to further our understanding of why economic activity is …, mainly due to commuting streams out of the former Soviet zone. This shows that a transitory shock is capable of shifting an …

As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four di.erent occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight … demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration shock to further our understanding of why economic activity is …, mainly due to commuting streams out of the former Soviet zone. This shows that a transitory shock is capable of shifting an …

As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four different occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight … demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration shock to further our understanding of why economic activity is …, mainly due to commuting streams out of the former Soviet zone. This shows that a transitory shock is capable of shifting an …

As a consequence of World War II, Austria was divided into four di.erent occupation zones for 10 years. Before tight … demarcation line. We exploit this large internal migration shock to further our understanding of why economic activity is …, mainly due to commuting streams out of the former Soviet zone. This shows that a transitory shock is capable of shifting an …

This paper studies the persistence of a large, unexpected, and regionally very unevenly distributed population shock …, the inflow of eight million ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II. Using detailed census … data from 1939 to 1970, we show that the shock had a persistent effect on the distribution of population within local labor …