Who stays, who goes, who returns? East-West migration within Germany since reunification

Economics of Transition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 703-738

  Fuchs Schündeln, Nicola ^a   Schündeln, Matthias ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Germany; Migration; Reunification; Temporary migration

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; EDUCATION; GENDER; MIGRATION DETERMINANT; RETURN MIGRATION; TERRITORIAL REUNIFICATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

EID: 69649093519     PISSN: 09670750     EISSN: 14680351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2009.00373.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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