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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

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dc.creator Trübswetter, Parvati
dc.creator Brücker, Herbert
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:58:16Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:58:16Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18093
dc.identifier ppn:381836029
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18093
dc.description Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IABemployment sample, we find however that employed East-West migrants remain positively self-selected with respect to unobserved abilities. This result is consistent with the predictions of our extended Roy model which considers moving costs that are negatively correlated with labour market abilities of individuals. Moreover, we find that wage differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after unification.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin
dc.relation DIW-Diskussionspapiere 396
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject J61
dc.subject R23
dc.subject P23
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Migration
dc.subject self-selection
dc.subject East Germany
dc.subject Binnenwanderung
dc.subject Regionale Arbeitsmobilität
dc.subject Migrationstheorie
dc.subject Brain Drain
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject Neue Bundesländer
dc.subject Alte Bundesländer
dc.subject Selbstselektion
dc.title Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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