title: Internal migration in West Germany and implications for east-west salary convergence.
abstract: "Using a simple model of gross migration [in West Germany], the paper shows that provided economic agents are sufficiently risk averse, migrational flows are likely to be procyclical.  The econometric results confirm that flows are highly procyclical.  They further indicate that changes in regional economic disparities significantly affect migrational flows.  However, given the widening of regional disparities in the 1980s accompanied by a worsening in aggregate conditions, migration seems least effective in offsetting the differentiated impact of labor market shocks when it would be most useful.  The paper concludes by applying the results to the issue of east-west migration and salary convergence." (SUMMARY IN GER)
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005060:Europe; D005583:Fourier Analysis; D005843:Geography; D005858:Germany; D006280:Health Workforce; D007182:Income; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Cyclic Analysis; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Geographic Factors; Germany; Human Resources; Income; Labor Force; Migration; Migration, Internal; Population; Population Dynamics; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Western Europe