%0 Report
        %A Falck, Oliver
%A Heblich, Stephan
%A Link, Susanne
        %T The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?
        %D 2011
        %8 2011 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 5829
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5829
        %X 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.
        %K integration policy
%K forced migration
%K difference-in-differences
%K Germany