Where Have All the Young Women Gone? Gender-Specific Migration from East to West Germany

With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, direct migration from East to West Germany became possible. Between 1989 and 2007 more than 1.7 million, or 10 percent of the East's population, migrated to the West. A surprising and rarely investigated outcome of this migration process is that about 5...

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Main Authors: Kröhnert, Steffen, Vollmer, Sebastian
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9253