CHANGES IN SOCIAL-STRUCTURE AND THE INTEGRATION OF WORLD-WAR-II REFUGEES

Very frequently studies of the structural changes in society which too k place in the Federal Republic of Germany after World War II have ign ored the fact that up to the 1960s there was a successful social and o ccupational integration of mom than ten million World War II refugees. This contribution analyzes, whether results which were previously fou nd for West Germany as a whole are also valid for the region of Bavari a. This part of Germany - characterized at the end of the War by the d ominance of the agricultural sector - had to manage the integration of an especially high number of refugees. By means of a log-linear analy sis of microcensus data the effects of age, time period, and cohort, a s they influenced the employment rate of females between 1939 and 1971 , are analyzed, and a comparison between refugees and the native born population is made.