Regional Labor Markets, Network Externalities and Migration: The Case of German Reunification
dc.contributor.author | Uhlig, Harald | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-15T23:02:49Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-15T23:02:49Z | |
dc.date.created | 2006-02-09 | |
dc.date.issued | 2006-02-06 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1860-5664 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/4583 | |
dc.description.abstract | Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of Barro (1991), exceptthat 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 laborsearch 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 obviouslysound policies to move from the weakly networked equilibrium to the highly networked equilibrium. | eng |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät | |
dc.rights.uri | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
dc.subject | migration | eng |
dc.subject | German reunification | eng |
dc.subject | labor market search | eng |
dc.subject | network externalities | eng |
dc.subject | regional economics | eng |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 Wirtschaft | |
dc.title | Regional Labor Markets, Network Externalities and Migration: The Case of German Reunification | |
dc.type | book | |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-10057420 | |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/3931 | |
dc.subject.dnb | 17 Wirtschaft | |
local.edoc.container-title | Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko | |
local.edoc.pages | 52 | |
local.edoc.type-name | Buch | |
local.edoc.container-type | series | |
local.edoc.container-type-name | Schriftenreihe | |
local.edoc.container-volume | 2006 | |
local.edoc.container-issue | 4 | |
local.edoc.container-year | 2006 | |
local.edoc.container-erstkatid | 2195055-6 |