OldVolk:Aging in 1950s Germany, East and West

Violence and fear of violence in East and West Germany.

The purpose of this research was to assess the effect of major social changes in Germany since 1989 on mortality due to intentional injury. Mechanisms and types of fatal intentional injury in East and West Germany between 1970 and 1995 were determined from death certificates and compared with judicial data on violent crime convictions and recent public survey data on citizen fear of crime. The ...

Political Culture : Differences in East and West Germany

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Inhaling Democracy: Cigarette Advertising and Health Education in Post-war West Germany, 1950s–1975

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the West German government was faced with the challenge of addressing a damaging health behaviour, smoking, in the context of an emerging late modern democracy, when the precedent for addressing that behaviour was set in the Nazi past. This paper details the two-pronged approach which the government took: seeking restrictions on cigarette advertising, whilst e...

Determinants of East-West-migration in Germany: A macroeconometric analysis

A main feature characterising the transition process of eastern Germany is the scope with which East-West migration took place before, during, and after the German reunification. Overall, 4 million individuals left East Germany to migrate to the west between 1989 and 2007 (gross migration). Taking into account West-East migration, cumulative net migration amounted to 1.7 million persons. This r...

The Long-Standing Demographic East-West-Divide in Germany