Old Sins Cast Long Shadows: The Long-Term Impact of the Resettlement of the Sudetenland on Residential Migration

Guzi, Martin; Mikula, Štěpán; Huber, Peter

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3445802

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“…The new communities they created therefore, presumably, had low initial levels of local social capital. Guzi, Huber, and Mikula (2019) show that the resettlement increased the population churn in resettled municipalities and that this effect has persisted to the present day. They also document that to this day the resettled municipalities still report lower voter turnout in local elections and lower civic participation in local clubs -i.e., in local social capital.…”

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Social capital and mobility: An experimental study

Staněk¹,

Krčál²,

Mikula³

2022

Rationality and Society

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Theoretical models of local social capital predict that communities may find themselves in one of two equilibria: one with a high level of local social capital and low migration or one with a low level of local social capital and high migration. There is empirical literature suggesting that immigrants who join communities high in social capital are more likely to invest in local social capital and that the whole community will then end up in the equilibrium with high local social capital and low migration. However, this literature suffers from the selection of immigrants, which makes the identification challenging. In order to test the causal influence of the initial level of local social capital, we take the setup used in the theoretical models into the laboratory. We treat some communities by increasing the initial level of social capital without affecting the equilibrium outcomes. We find that while most communities end up in one of the two equilibria predicted by the theoretical models, the treated communities are more likely to converge to the equilibrium with a high level of local social capital and low migration.

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Social capital and mobility: An experimental study

Staněk¹,

Krčál²,

Mikula³

2022

Rationality and Society

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“…11 Guzi et al (2019) and Testa (2020) compare the evolution of social capital, population, and economic outcomes across the border between the former Sudetenland and the neighboring Czech main lands. We study differences in outcomes within the formerly German-populated part of Czechoslovakia as well as within the Czech-populated main lands.…”

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Forced Migration, Staying Minorities, and New Societies: Evidence from Postwar Czechoslovakia

Grossmann

Jurajda

Roesel

2023

American J Political Sci

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Forced migration traumatizes millions displaced from their homes, but little is known about the few who manage to stay and become a minority in a new society. We study the case of German stayers in Sudetenland, a region from which Czechoslovakia expelled ethnic Germans after World War Two. The unexpected presence of the US Army in parts of 1945 Czechoslovakia resulted in more anti-fascist Germans avoiding displacement compared to regions liberated by the Red Army. We study the long-run impacts of this local variation in the presence of left-leaning stayers and find that Communist party support and local party cell frequencies, as well as far-left values and social policies are more pronounced today where anti-fascist Germans stayed in larger numbers. Our findings also suggest that political identity supplanted German ethnic identity among anti-fascist stayers. The German staying minority shaped the political identity of newly formed local societies after ethnic cleansing by providing the 'small seed' of political development.

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