Staunching Emigration from East Germany: Age and the Determinants of Migration

Hunt, Jennifer

doi:10.1162/jeea.2006.4.5.1014

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“…up to 70 km. 10 Figure 4 shows the percentage of the population willing to commute a certain amount of time under our calibration, and it matches the numbers from the surveys very well.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Early retirement policies after reunification probably make the picture more favorable for skill differences than it would otherwise have been. On the other hand, selected migration might have lowered the mean skills in the East (Hunt, 2006). We provide further discussion of the preliminary results in the conclusion.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…Given I W , S W pins down the average unemployment rate in the West. Any decrease in the East-West worker or job characteristic ratios leads to an increase in the difference of the mean unemployment rates between 10 This survey question was answered by 10,006 respondents. The survey from Perspektive Deutschland was answered by 510,000 individuals.…”

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu Terms of use: Documents in I n s t i t u t f ü r W e l t w i r t s c h a f t a n d e r U n i v e r s i t ä t K i e l K i e l I n s t i t u t e f o r t h e W o r l d E c o n o m y Kiel Institute for World Economics AbstractThis paper presents a spatial analysis of unemployment rates in Germany. The goal of this analysis is to explain the stubbornly low labor productivity and high unemployment rates in Eastern Germany. We build a model of commuting to distinguish between worker and job characteristics as the main causes of the low labor productivity, and use the method of simulated moments to estimate the East-West ratios of worker and job characteristics. The "slope" of the unemployment rate across the former East-West border serves as the main identification of the model. The preliminary results suggest that East and West German skills are very similar, while job characteristics differ significantly between East and West.

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“…up to 70 km. 10 Figure 4 shows the percentage of the population willing to commute a certain amount of time under our calibration, and it matches the numbers from the surveys very well.…”

Section: Calibrationsupporting

confidence: 59%

Section: Preliminary Resultsmentioning

confidence: 76%

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2012

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“…An individual who decides to migrate today-all else equalprefers destinations with a dialect similar to that found in the source region more than 120 years ago. Cultural ties across regions are highly persistent over time and affect economic 2 See, e.g., Hunt (2006) for an analysis of internal migration in Germany. Classical references are Schwartz (1973) and Greenwood (1975).…”

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Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange

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Heblich²,

Lameli³

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We study the effect of cultural ties on economic exchange using a novel measure for cultural identity: dialects. We evaluate linguistic micro-data from a unique language survey conducted between 1879 and 1888 in about 45,000 German schools. The recorded geography of dialects comprehensively portrays local cultural similarities that have been evolving for centuries, and provides an ideal opportunity to measure cultural barriers to economic exchange at a fine geographical scale. In a gravity analysis we show that cross-regional migration flows in the period 2000-2006 are positively affected by historical dialect similarity. Using different empirical strategies, we show that this finding indicates highly time-persistent cultural ties that foster economic exchange across regions

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“…In the first year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, about 400,000 people migrated from East to West Germany (Hunt, 2006 10 percent of its population; after Albania, this represents the second largest net population loss among the countries formerly behind the "Iron Curtain" (Wolf, 2007). The large migration numbers show that it was easy to migrate-last but not least because people and cultures in both parts of Germany were similar, even after 40 years of division.…”

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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up: The Long-Term Impact of Government Ideology and Personal Experience on Values

Ziebarth

Wagner

2013

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose attitudes toward doping to test the impact of ideology on values since (i) post-1989 disappointed economic hopes did not confound doping attitudes, and because of (ii) the systematic GDR state doping activities that became public in reunified Germany in the 1990s. Our findings demonstrate that even after half the time the division lasted, e.g. 20 years after the reunification, differences in convictions continue to persist. Personal extramural sports experience and age are equally strong predictors of individual attitudes and beliefs, especially in interaction with ideological socialization.

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Staunching Emigration from East Germany: Age and the Determinants of Migration

Cited by 234 publications

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Explaining the low labor productivity in East Germany – A spatial analysis

Explaining the low labor productivity in East Germany – A spatial analysis

Dialects, cultural identity, and economic exchange

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