The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?

Armed conflicts, natural disasters and infrastructure projects continue to force millions into migration. This is especially true for developing countries. After World War II, about 8 million ethnic Germans experienced a similar situation when forced to leave their homelands and settle within the new borders of West Germany. Subsequently, a law was introduced to foster their labor market integration. We evaluate the success of this law using unique retrospective individual-level panel data. We find that the law improved expellees' overall situation but failed to restore their pre-war occupation status. This holds implications for the design of integration policies today.

• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Social Science Research Network

• Publication date

  2011-07-11

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.2139/ssrn.1882848
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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