RT Generic T1 The local environment shapes refugee integration : evidence from post-war Germany A1 Braun,Sebastian Till A1 Dwenger,Nadja WP 2017/06/07 AB This paper studies how the local environment in receiving counties affected the economic, social, and political integration of the eight million expellees who arrived in West Germany after World War II. We first document that integration outcomes differed dramatically across West German counties. We then show that more industrialized counties and counties with low expellee inflows were much more successful in integrating expellees than agrarian counties and counties with high in inflows. Religious differences between native West Germans and expellees had no effect on labor market outcomes, but reduced inter-marriage rates and increased the local support for anti-expellee parties. K1 Deutschland K1 Nachkriegszeit K1 Flüchtlingspolitik K1 Integration K1 Vertriebener PP Hohenheim PB Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim UL http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2017/1360