TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Falck, Oliver
AU  - Heblich, Stephan
AU  - Link, Susanne
        TI  - The Evils of Forced Migration: Do Integration Policies Alleviate Migrants' Economic Situations?
        PY  - 2011/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5829
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp5829
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - integration policy
KW  - forced migration
KW  - difference-in-differences
KW  - Germany
        ER  -