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http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18433| Title: | Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach |
| Keywords: | D31 C81 D63 ddc:330 Inequality Decomposition Gini Stratification German Unification Regional Disparities SOEP |
| Issue Date: | 16-Oct-2013 |
| Publisher: | Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin |
| Description: | This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and withingroup components as well as an ?overlapping? index for the different sup-populations. We apply this method together with a jackknife estimation of standard errors. We find that East Germany is still a stratum on its own when using post-government income, but since 2001 no longer is when using pre-government income. These results remain stable when using alternatively defined regional classifications. However, there are also indications of some regional variation within West Germany. Overall, these findings are important for the political discussion with respect to a potential regional concentration of future transfers from East to West Germany. |
| URI: | http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18433 |
| Other Identifiers: | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18433 ppn:505104458 |
| Appears in Collections: | EconStor |
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