Arbeitspapier
Social distress and economic integration
We analyze whether social distress from income comparisons affects attitudes towards the integration of economies. Using Germany’s division as natural experiment, we find that East Germans’ feelings of relative deprivation with respect to better-off West Germans led to significantly more support for the upcoming German re-unification.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IWH Discussion Papers ; No. 21/2016
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Economic Integration
- Subject
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relative deprivation,
economic integration
merger of populations
social comparisons
natural experiment
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hyll, Walter
Schneider, Lutz
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)
- (where)
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Halle (Saale)
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-57823
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hyll, Walter
- Schneider, Lutz
- Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH)
Time of origin
- 2016
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