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Changing Western German Internal Migration Systems during the Second Half of the 1980s

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  • T Kontuly

    (Department of Geography, University of Utah, 270 OSH, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA)

  • K P Schön

    (Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung, Am Michaelshof 8, 53177 Bonn, Germany)

Abstract

The slow downward trend toward greater spatial deconcentration in West Germany during the time period 1970 to 1984 shifted back toward concentration from 1985 and through 1988. This ‘swing back’ occurred over only a three-year period. Regional labor-market changes appear to be the only factor able to cause such an abrupt shift to concentration, suggesting the importance of the regional restructuring hypothesis as an explanation. Changing internal migration patterns by two age-groups, 25–29 and 30–49, were responsible for the shift. A reduction of net in-migration to intermediate-sized regions with favorable structures as well as to small-sized rural regions with unfavorable structures, in the northern and central parts of the country, caused the shift. The concentration trend remained unaltered during 1989, in spite of large transfers of population out of eastern and into western Germany, because these exchanges favored the large-sized, densely populated, structurally weak regions in the Ruhr-Rhine and the Saarland.

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  • T Kontuly & K P Schön, 1994. "Changing Western German Internal Migration Systems during the Second Half of the 1980s," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 26(10), pages 1521-1543, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:26:y:1994:i:10:p:1521-1543
    DOI: 10.1068/a261521
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    1. Rohr-Zänker, Ruth, 1998. "Die Mühen der Suche nach Führungskräften : betriebliche Rekrutierungsstrategien in peripheren Regionen - am Beispiel der Weser-Ems-Region (The effort involved in searching for managerial staff : Compa," Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 31(2), pages 244-257.
    2. Tani, Massimiliano, 2003. "Have Europeans become more mobile? A note on regional evolutions in the EU: 1988-1997," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 80(1), pages 23-30, July.
    3. Rohr-Zänker, Ruth, 1998. "Die Mühen der Suche nach Führungskräften : betriebliche Rekrutierungsstrategien in peripheren Regionen - am Beispiel der Weser-Ems-Region (The effort involved in searching for managerial staff : Compa," Mitteilungen aus der Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], vol. 31(2), pages 244-257.
    4. Rohr-Zänker Ruth, 2001. "Wie attraktiv ist die Peripherie für Führungskräfte?," ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography, De Gruyter, vol. 45(1), pages 85-102, October.

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