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Where Have All the Young Women Gone? Gender-Specific Migration from East to West Germany

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dc.contributor.authorKröhnert, Steffen
dc.contributor.authorVollmer, Sebastian
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T15:43:28Z
dc.date.available2012-06-26T15:43:28Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractWith the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, direct migration from East to West Germany became possible. Between 1989 and 2007 more than 1.7 million, or 10 percent of the East's population, migrated to the West. A surprising and rarely investigated outcome of this migration process is that about 55 percent of all (net) East-to-West migrants since 1989 have been female. Since more than half of the migrants were younger than 30 years old, this selective migration led to a tremendous deficit of females in the 18-to-29-year-old age group. This paper investigates the reasons for the gender-specific migration from East to West Germany. It identifies a considerable discrepancy in educational levels between women and men as the main cause for the missing-women phenomenon in East Germany. The female success in education, combined with an inadequate demand for highly skilled female labor in the East and a deficit of adequate local partners in terms of education are the main causes that make young women leave East Germany.en
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/9253
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9253
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWashington, DC: World Bank
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
dc.subjectWorld Development Report 2009
dc.titleWhere Have All the Young Women Gone? Gender-Specific Migration from East to West Germanyen
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.crosscuttingsolutionareaFragility, Conflict, and Violence
okr.date.doiregistration2025-05-05T11:38:10.588098Z
okr.globalpracticeSocial, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpracticeEducation
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.language.supporteden
okr.region.administrativeEurope and Central Asia
okr.relation.associatedurlhttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5991
okr.topicCommunities and Human Settlements
okr.topicConflict and Development
okr.topicEducation
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population
okr.topicLabor
okr.topicSocial Development
okr.topicWorld Bank
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