TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Braun, Sebastian Till
AU  - Kramer, Anica
AU  - Kvasnicka, Michael
        TI  - Local Labor Markets and the Persistence of Population Shocks
        PY  - 2017/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 11077
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp11077
        AB  - 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 markets, but only a temporary effect on the distribution between labor markets. These results suggest that locational fundamentals determine population patterns across but not within local labor markets, and they can help to explain why previous studies on the persistence of population shocks reached such different conclusions.
        KW  - regional migration
KW  - agglomeration economies
KW  - locational fundamentals
KW  - population shock
KW  - postwar Germany
        ER  -