Immigration and Housing Rents: Evidence from German Reunification

by Kathleen Kurschner and Kathleen Kürschner

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 K?rschner finds strong evidence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3658120606
• ISBN13: 9783658120603
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Springer Gabler
• Length: 115 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"