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Abstract:
The author uses a deconcentration theory to explain shifts in migration that occurred in the Federal Republic of Germany during the 1980s. He finds that "a general redistribution of the West German population down the metropolitan size hierarchy occurred during the first half of the 1980s, and was not the result of (a net) out-migration from old industrial areas....A spatial deconcentration of manufacturing and service sector employment during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s allowed family-aged migrants to actualize their preferences for living in lower-density and small urban areas, and as a result a regional deconcentration of population became evident in the 1980s."
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