Compared to the west of the country, fewer and more highly educated non-Germans live in eastern Germany, an intergovernmental economic organization has found.
Despite non-Germans in the east being better educated than in the west, newcomers are also less accepted in Germany’s eastern federal states, according to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
“While only one in two people in east Germany considers where they live to be a good place for migrants, in the west this is the case for some four out of five people,” said chief OECD economist Thomas Liebig who is currently researching the topic of migration in Germany.
