Internal migration in West Germany and implications for east-west salary convergence
Decressin, J.W.
Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv 130(2): 231-257
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0043-2636 PMID: 12319451 DOI: 10.1007/bf02707708Document Number: 290575
"Using a simple model of gross migration [in West Germany], the paper shows that provided economic agents are sufficiently risk averse, migrational flows are likely to be procyclical. The econometric results confirm that flows are highly procyclical. They further indicate that changes in regional economic disparities significantly affect migrational flows. However, given the widening of regional disparities in the 1980s accompanied by a worsening in aggregate conditions, migration seems least effective in offsetting the differentiated impact of labor market shocks when it would be most useful. The paper concludes by applying the results to the issue of east-west migration and salary convergence." (SUMMARY IN GER)
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