Der vorliegende Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Konsequenzen ein anderes Timing der Entscheidung über die Ziel-1-Fördergebiete im Rahmen der Kohäsions- und Strukturpolitik der Europäischen Union für die sächsischen Regierungsbezirke gehabt hätte. Dabei wird aufgezeigt,...

Gelingt es Ostdeutschland, den stetigen Aufwärtstrend im industriellen Sektor zu halten, und kommt der strukturelle Anpassungsprozess in der Bauwirtschaft demnächst zu einem Ende, so kann der Konvergenzprozess wieder etwas an Fahrt aufnehmen. Damit es zu einer solchen Konvergenz in Zukunft...

Labor votes with its feet-individuals migrate from areas of low wages to areas of higher wages. That has been the traditional view, one that has spawned much policy advice to control migration and to affect the location decisions of migrant laborers. But recent research indicates that portfolio...

Marriage, migration and related phenomena such as marital stability, fertility and investment in human capital may be better explained by studying marriage and migration jointly. We thus proceed in this paper to explore the role of migration in obtaining joint labour-market and marriage-market...

By means of examples that pertain to individual, family, and community contexts, it is shown that migration between locations is compatible with a zero expected net earnings differential between locations. The examples give rise to testable predictions that differ sharply from the predictions...

Taking the family as the rural-to-urban migration decision-making unit, will the “expected-income migration model” accurately predict the level of migration? Consideration of two variables - desire for leisure, and a version to risk - serves to show that the expected-income model yields a...

In a recent article, “Reexamining the influence of conditional cash transfers on migration from a gendered lens,” Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for giving up an attractive migration option. I question...