Uhlig, Harald - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Fifteen years after German reunification, the facts about slow regional convergence have born out the prediction of … Barro (1991), except that 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. I document that low wages, high …