THE ECONOMIC LEGACY OF EXPULSION: LESSONS FROM POST-WAR CZECHOSLOVAKIA

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Testa, Patrick A.
• 署名单位: Tulane University
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1093/ej/ueaa132
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 2233-2271
• 关键词: Multiple equilibria; jewish communities; city growth; german; institutions; geography; czech; agglomeration; immigration; persistence

摘要

This article examines the long-run effects of forced migration on economic development in the origin economy, using Czechoslovakia's expulsion of three million Germans after WWII. For identification, I use the discontinuity in ethnic composition at the border of the Sudetenland region where Germans lived. Germans had similar characteristics to Czechs, bypassing factors driving effects in other cases of forced migration, such as differences in human capital. The expulsion produced persistent disparities in population density, sector composition and educational attainment. I trace effects to selective initial resettlements and capital extraction following the expulsion, culminating in urban decay and human capital decline.