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| Author: | Hunt, J. |
| Title: | Staunching emigration from East Germany: age and the determinants of migration |
| Journal: | Journal of the European Economic Association
2006 : SEP, VOL. 4:5, p. 1014-1037 |
| Index terms: | emigration Germany PAY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper analyses how the unification of Germany in 1990 the eastern wages and unemployment to rise rapidly. The author suggests that the rising wages reduced eastern emigration greatly, while rising unemployment had little effect. The young are very sensitive to source region wages and relatively insensitive to source unemployment. Most of the effect of source unemployment comes from the contemporaneous effect on those laid-off who are more likely to be older. It is found that compared to the stayers, young emigrants are much more skilled, older emigrants are slightly more skilled, and commuters are not more skilled, as measured by education and pre-move wages. |
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