Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/299385 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
WIFO Working Papers No. 680
Publisher: 
Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO), Vienna
Abstract: 
We analyze the impacts of three major unexpected border regime changes that occurred during the course of 20th century on population growth along the Austrian-Czech border. Using historical municipal-level census data reaching back to 1880, we find no effects of the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919) but strong and oppositely signed effects of the drawing (1948) and the fall (1989) of the Iron Curtain in both countries. Our findings indicate that border regimes affect population growth via economic as well as non-economic mechanisms.
Subjects: 
Population growth
border regions
economic geography
JEL: 
N94
R12
R23
J11
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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