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  • 8 - Economic Implications of Diversity in West Germany

  • from Part IV - Long-Run Economic Consequences of Uprooting
  • Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Book:
    Uprooted
    Published online:
    07 November 2024
    Print publication:
    21 November 2024, pp 200-227

  • Summary

    The chapter examines the relationship between the size and diversity of the expellee population and entrepreneurship and occupational change in West Germany. Using statistical data at the municipal and county levels, it documents a reversal of fortune: although expellee presence presented economic challenges in the immediate postwar period, in the long run, it increased entrepreneurship rates, education, and household incomes. The more regionally diverse the expellee population, the better the long-run economic performance in receiving communities.