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East-west migration in Germany: the young go - the old come

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  • Martin Werding

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In the years 1989 to 1991, strong migration movements from east to west Germany took place in which, on balance, approximately one million people migrated to the old Länder. Since then net migration from east to west Germany has clearly abated. Very rarely, however, does one examine the volume of gross migration behind these small balances. If the gross migration flows and the migration balances are broken down into age groups, it is striking that on balance the group under 25 years of age, especially the 18 to 25 age group, migrates from the new Länder, whereas a small but (since 1966) continuous net migration to east Germany is occurring in the 50 and older age group.

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  • Martin Werding, 2002. "East-west migration in Germany: the young go - the old come," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 55(04), pages 44-45, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:55:y:2002:i:04:p:44-45
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    1. Nico Stawarz & Nikola Sander & Harun Sulak & Matthias Rosenbaum-Feldbrügge, 2020. "The turnaround in internal migration between East and West Germany over the period 1991 to 2018," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 43(33), pages 993-1008.

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    • J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion

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