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Immigration and Regional Economic Developement: A case Study in post-World War Two Baden-Wüttemberg

Bruckner, Valentin LU (2021) EKHS01 20211
Department 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
type
H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
subject
keywords
immigration, refugees, economic growth, post-war Germany
language
English
id
9058952
date added to LUP
2021-08-26 10:48:44
date last changed
2021-08-26 10:48:44
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  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Bruckner, Valentin}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Immigration and Regional Economic Developement: A case Study in post-World War Two Baden-Wüttemberg}},
  year         = {{2021}},
}