Berlin calling - Internal migration in Germany

Thomas Bauer (), Christian Rulff and Michael Tamminga

No 823, Ruhr Economic Papers from RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen

Abstract: This paper analyzes the determinants of internal migration in Germany. Using data on the NUTS-3 level for different age groups and Pseudo-Poisson Maximum Likelihood (PPML) gravity models, the empirical analysis focuses on the relevant push and pull factors of internal migration over the life cycle. Labor market variables appear to be most powerful in explaining interregional migration, especially for the younger cohorts. Furthermore, internal migrants show heterogeneous migration behavior across age groups. In particular the largest group, which is also the youngest, migrates predominantly into urban areas, whereas the oldest groups chose to move to rural regions. This kind of clustering reinforces preexisting regional heterogeneity of demographic change.

Keywords: internal migration; gravity model; demographic polarization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 O18 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-lab, nep-mig and nep-ure
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DOI: 10.4419/86788956

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