Immigration and Regional Economic Developement: A case Study in post-World War Two Baden-Wüttemberg
(2021) EKHS01 20211Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- The thesis investigates how the inflow of ethnic Germans, into western Germany, influenced the sectoral development. During and after the Second World War Germany experienced a huge inflow of ethnic Germans who lived in eastern Europe before the War. The study fo-cused on the federal state of Baden-Württemberg which was split into a French and Ameri-can occupation zone. This resulted in different immigration regimes, influencing the share of expellees in the two regions. This quasi-natural experiment is used to establish a new in-strumental variable approach to measure the impact of a locally, uneven labor supply shock. To measure the economic development, I created a panel data set on the administrative dis-trict level spanning from 1926... (More)
- The thesis investigates how the inflow of ethnic Germans, into western Germany, influenced the sectoral development. During and after the Second World War Germany experienced a huge inflow of ethnic Germans who lived in eastern Europe before the War. The study fo-cused on the federal state of Baden-Württemberg which was split into a French and Ameri-can occupation zone. This resulted in different immigration regimes, influencing the share of expellees in the two regions. This quasi-natural experiment is used to establish a new in-strumental variable approach to measure the impact of a locally, uneven labor supply shock. To measure the economic development, I created a panel data set on the administrative dis-trict level spanning from 1926 to 1970. The results are suggesting a substantially, positive impact on the regional economy as a whole, while results are too ambiguous to confirm the effects on sectoral change. (Less)
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- author
- Bruckner, Valentin LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EKHS01 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- immigration, refugees, economic growth, post-war Germany
- language
- English
- id
- 9058952
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- 2021-08-26 10:48:44
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