| dc.creator |
Uhlig, Harald |
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| dc.date |
2007 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-16T06:57:01Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2013-10-16T06:57:01Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2013-10-16 |
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| dc.identifier |
http://hdl.handle.net/10419/17838 |
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| dc.identifier |
ppn:524300585 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/17838 |
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| dc.description |
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), except that migration out of East Germany has not slowed down. I document that in particular the 18-29 year old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has accelerated in recent years. To understand these patterns, I provide an extension of the standard labor search model by allowing for migration and network externalities. In that theory, two equilibria can result: one with a high networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no emigration (?West Germany?) and one with a low networking rate, low average labor productivity, high unemployment and a constant rate of emigration (?East Germany?). The model does not imply any obviously sound policies to move from the weakly networked equilibrium to the highly networked equilibrium. |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.publisher |
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel |
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| dc.relation |
Kieler Arbeitspapiere 1311 |
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| dc.rights |
http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen |
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| dc.subject |
J24 |
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| dc.subject |
J64 |
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| dc.subject |
J61 |
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| dc.subject |
J11 |
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| dc.subject |
J21 |
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| dc.subject |
E24 |
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| dc.subject |
ddc:330 |
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| dc.subject |
German reunification |
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| dc.subject |
labor market search |
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| dc.subject |
network externalities |
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| dc.subject |
migration |
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| dc.subject |
regional economics |
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| dc.subject |
Regionaler Arbeitsmarkt |
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| dc.subject |
Binnenwanderung |
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| dc.subject |
Regionale Arbeitsmobilität |
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| dc.subject |
Deutschland |
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| dc.title |
Regional labor markets, network externalities and migration : the case of German reunification |
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| dc.type |
doc-type:workingPaper |
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| dc.coverage |
1994-2004 |
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