Arbeitspapier

Drifting together or falling apart? : The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus on the evolution of the entire cross-sectional income distribution. In particular, we follow a distributional approach to convergence based on kernel density estimation and implement a number of tests to establish the statistical significance of our findings. This paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal/bimodal distribution.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 1533

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
Thema
regional economic growth
Germany
convergence clubs
density estimation
modality tests
Regionale Entwicklung
Entwicklungskonvergenz
Sozialprodukt
Schätzung
Deutschland
Neue Bundesländer

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Colavecchio, Roberta
Curran, Declan
Funke, Michael
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2005

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Colavecchio, Roberta
  • Curran, Declan
  • Funke, Michael
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2005

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