The long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland on residential migration

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“…4As the 19«0 census does not contain information on house ownership by ethnicity, we rely on the share of ethnic Germans residing in a municipality to approximate their housing stock (for details see Guzi et al, 2021). 𝑃 𝑖 is the ratio of the population 16+ years old residing in houses constructed before WWII from the The correlation between our treatment variable and the changes in electoral outcomes between two election rounds is highly statistically significant (Figure 5 shows 𝑡-statistics).…”

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“…Glassheim (2006) explains this attitude in the context of the post-World War II resettlement of the region: the North Bohemian region was originally primarily populated by ethnic Germans, who were forcibly expelled from the country in the aftermath of the Second World War. The empty towns and villages were then resettled, largely by inhabitants from inland regions of today's Czech Republic who had little or no ties to the region (see Guzi et al 2021, for details on this resettlement process). Glassheim (2006) claims that, with the help of communist government propaganda, coal and coal mining, became pillars of the newly established regional identity.…”

“…15. The data were digitized by Guzi et al (2021). They use aggregation rules provided by the CZSO to match current and historical municipalities.…”

“…None of our results, therefore, indicates that benefits influenced the observed effect on the emigration rate. Source: Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (CHMI), ArcČR 500 v3.3, Guzi et al (2021). For details see Section 3.…”

“…Theoretical models developed by David et al (2010), and Bräuninger and Tolciu (2011) suggest that a negative shock to social capital, such as this one, could shift a municipality into a stable equilibrium characterized by lower levels of social capital and higher emigration. Guzi et al (2021) use municipality-level data for the Czech Republic for the period 1971-2015 to identify the persistent long-run effect of resettlement on residential migration. They find that the expulsion of ethnic Germans and subsequent resettlement increased emigration rates in most affected resettled municipalities (municipalities with a pre-war share of ethnic Germans above 90%) by 0.6-0.7 p.p.…”