Immigration and Housing Rents : Evidence from German Reunification / by Kathleen Kürschner.
Kürschner, Kathleen, author.
2016
HD4801-8943
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Title Immigration and Housing Rents : Evidence from German Reunification / by Kathleen Kürschner.
Author Kürschner, Kathleen, author.
Edition 1st ed. 2016.
ISBN 9783658120610
3658120614
9783658120603
3658120606
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12061-0
Published Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint : Springer Gabler, [2016]
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 115 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-658-12061-0 doi
Call Number HD4801-8943
Dewey Decimal Classification 331
Summary 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 1991 and 1992 and unique rental price indicators from Germany's major regional property market information system, Kathleen Kürschner finds strong evidence for a positive and sizeable effect of immigration on rental prices of residential housing. Additional explorations that employ an IV approach based on various exogenous origin-region push factors related to the deteriorating economic conditions in East Germany yield estimates of even larger magnitude. These results suggest that immigration has important economic effects outside the labour market, traditionally the prime domain of economic enquiries into the consequences of immigration. The author's findings cast doubt on the appropriateness of this bias in focus.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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German East-West Migration
West German Property Market
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