Economic Effects of Germans’ Expulsion from Czechoslovakia Revisited
| Author: | Mgr. Kateřina Kafková |
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| Year: | 2022 - summer |
| Leaders: | PhDr. Jaromír Baxa Ph.D. |
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| Work type: | Finance, Financial Markets and Banking Masters |
| Language: | English |
| Pages: | 101 |
| Awards and prizes: | Deloitte Outstanding Thesis Award. |
| Link: | https://dspace.cuni.cz/handle/20.500.11956/176582 |
| Abstract: | This thesis studies long-run effects that expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia after World War II had on the Czech borderlands. Specifically, the thesis tests sensitivity of prior literature's findings by investigating previously not addressed potentially confounding factors – presence of military areas and border zone in the data; heavy air pollution in the North-West Bohemia during the communist regime; and impact of Wild expulsion in the Soviet liberation zone right after the end of World War II. Minor to no effects of these factors are revealed. Therefore, the findings of this thesis are in line with the findings of the existing literature - the expulsion of Germans caused higher unemployment, lower population density, lower employment in highskilled sectors, and a lower share of population with secondary and tertiary education in the borderlands, when compared to the Czech interior, that lasts until today |
