2006
DOI: 10.1162/jeea.2006.4.5.1014
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Staunching Emigration from East Germany: Age and the Determinants of Migration

Abstract: Following the unification of Germany in 1990, eastern wages and unemployment both rose rapidly. I demonstrate that rising wages reduced eastern emigration greatly, while rising unemployment had little effect. This reflects the behavior of the young, who are very sensitive to source region wages, and relatively insensitive to source unemployment. I show that most of the effect of source unemployment comes from the contemporaneous effect on those laid-off, who are more likely to be older. I find that, compared t… Show more

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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%
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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%
“…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.…”
Section: Preliminary Resultsmentioning
confidence: 76%
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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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confidence: 99%
“…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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confidence: 99%