A Little Lift in the Iron Curtain: Emigration Restrictions and Criminal Activity in Socialist East Germany
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DOI: 10.1017/s1537592725102144
Abstract: What are the consequences of selective emigration from a closed regime? To answer this question, I focus on socialist East Germany and leverage an emigration reform in 1983 that led to the departure of about… read more here.
Keywords: emigration; socialist east; east germany; criminal activity ... See more keywords