Internal migration, regional labour market dynamics and implications for German East-West disparities: Results from a Panel VAR;Interne migration, regionale arbeitsmarktdynamik und implikationen für Ost-West-Disparitäten: Ergebnisse auf basis einer Panel VAR analyse

Jahrbuch fur Regionalwissenschaft

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 159-189

  Alecke, Björn ^a   Mitze, Timo ^b   Untiedt, Gerhard ^c  

^a GEFRA Münster ^*  (Germany)

^b RWI LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Internal Migration; Panel VAR; System GMM

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL MIGRATION; LABOR MARKET; LIVING STANDARD; MACROECONOMICS; MODEL TEST; REGIONAL ECONOMY;

GERMANY;

EID: 77954959894     PISSN: 01737600     EISSN: 16139836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10037-010-0045-3     Document Type: Article

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