Potential East-West Migration

East is East and west is west.

This position paper addresses the long-standing criticism that the International Baccalaureate (IB) is too closely associated with Western values and, despite its title, does not enable students to see the world from a truly international perspective. Considering evidence from different authorities, it analyses the IB learner profile and asks how appropriate it is for the cultures of East Asia....

East-West German Wage Convergence after Unification: Migration or Institutions?

One of the most remarkable economic consequences of German unification was a rise by more than 100% in DM wages paid to Eastern German workers over the period 1990-1995, despite sharply rising unemployment and persistently low labor productivity. While wage convergence is consistent with economic integration, the evidence suggests that it was substantially accelerated by the West German collect...

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...

Trends in East-West German Migration from 1989 to 2002

The purpose of this article is to show recent trends in regional migration from East to West Germany by combining data from the Statistisches Bundesamt from 1991 to 2002 with data from the Zentrales Einwohnerregister der DDR from 1989 to 1990. We document that annual gross outmigration rates peaked at the time of the Reunification, fell sharply thereafter, but rose steadily from the 1997 until ...

East - West migration : will it be a problem ?