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作者

Martin Guzi;Peter Huber;Štěpán Mikula

来源

来源 JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.126,P.

语言

英文

关键字

Migration;Social capital;Sudetenland;N44;Z10;R23;J15

作者单位

Department of Public Economics, Masaryk University. Address: Lipová 41a, Brno, Czech Republic;Austrian Institute for Economic Research. Address: Arsenal Objekt 20, Wien, Austria;Department of Economics, Masaryk University. Address: Lipová 41a, Brno, Czech Republic;Department of Public Economics, Masaryk University. Address: Lipová 41a, Brno, Czech Republic;Austrian Institute for Economic Research. Address: Arsenal Objekt 20, Wien, Austria;Department of Economics, Masaryk University. Address: Lipová 41a, Brno, Czech Republic

摘要

We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War II on residential migration. This event involved expulsion of ethnic Germans and an almost complete depopulation of an area of a country and its rapid resettlement by 2 million Czech inhabitants. Results based on a regression discontinuity design show a highly persistent higher population churn and thus a lower attachment of residents to their region in resettled areas. Descriptive evidence also indicates that resettled settlements still have fewer local club memberships, less frequently organize local social events and had lower turnout in municipal elections until the 1990s. This thus suggests persistently lower levels of local social capital. This finding is consistent with recent theoretical models that suggest a highly persistent impact of the destruction of local social capital on residential migration.