TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Grossmann, Jakub
AU  - Jurajda, Štepán
AU  - Roesel, Felix
        TI  - Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Post-War Czechoslovakia
        PY  - 2021/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 14191
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp14191
        AB  - How do staying minorities that evade ethnic cleansing integrate into re-settled communities? After World War Two, three million ethnic Germans were expelled from Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, but some were allowed to stay, many of them left-leaning anti-fascists. We study quasi-experimental local variation in the number of anti-fascist Germans staying in post-war Czechoslovakia and find a long-lasting footprint: Communist party support, party cell frequencies, far-left values, and social policies are stronger today where anti-fascist Germans stayed in larger numbers. Our findings also suggest that political identity supplanted German ethnic identity among stayers who faced new local ethnic majorities.
        KW  - forced migration
KW  - displacement
KW  - ethnic cleansing
KW  - stayers
KW  - minorities
KW  - identity
KW  - integration
KW  - communist party
KW  - Czechoslovakia
KW  - Sudetenland
        ER  -