The collapse of the Berlin wall: Simulating state-level East to West German migration patterns

Contributions to Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 73-96

  Heiland, Frank ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; MODELING; POPULATION MIGRATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 4644300523     PISSN: 14311933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2715-6_5     Document Type: Article

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