World War II

This paper studies the effects of WWII exposure, including displacement, injury, and captivity, on labor market careers, revealing that these effects often became apparent long after the war’s end.

This paper shows that war widowhood increased women’s employment in West Germany immediately after World War II but led to lower employment rates later in life.

The database contains county-level information on the number, origin, age, gender, religious denomination and labor force status of expellees in post-war West Germany.