differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

planned GDR and the market-oriented Federal Republic of Germany, rapidly raised fears about mass migration movements from the … predict the east-west German migration volume. Thus it is the objective of this paper to give an overview over the current … state of economic research on migration forecasts in the east-west German context. At this juncture the main studies within …

heterogeneity. I find that migrant women after migration neither experience a drop in relative employment, nor lower relative hourly …

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

The paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration … flows in 1990-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low … terms of employment prospects and public goods. Migration is however constrained by the lack of liquidity: for poorest …

In spite of extensive literature on migration in the Soviet Union, we know little about household-level decisions. This … study specifies and estimates those variables important to understanding the migration decision. Using data from the Soviet … traditional factors influencing migration are important, others are not, suggesting that in the post-Soviet era differentiating …