Immigration and Housing Rents Evidence from German Reunification /

• Main Author: Kürschner, Kathleen (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer Gabler, 2016.
• Series: BestMasters
• Subjects: Economic theory.; Economic policy.; Labor economics.; Economics.; Labor Economics.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Economic Policy.

This work exploits the natural experiment provided by the unexpected disintegration of socialist East Germany to study the impact of the mass immigration of East Germans on housing rents in West German metropolitan areas. Using a spatial correlation approach, annual district-level migration data for...

Table of Contents:

• German East-West Migration
• West German Property Market
• Origin Characteristics and Instrument Construction.