Arbeitspapier
Distribution dynamics of regional GDP per employee in unified Germany
We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has been achieved in Germany since unification. To this end, we model the distribution of GDP per employee across German districts using two-component normal mixtures. While in the first year after unification, the two component distributions were clearly separated and bimodal, corresponding to the East and West German districts, respectively, in the following years they started to merge showing only one mode. Still, using the recently developed EM-Test for homogeneity in normal mixtures, the hypothesis of just a single normal component for the whole distribution is clearly rejected for all years. A Posterior analysis shows that about half of the East German districts were assigned to the richer component in 2006, thus catching up to levels of the West. The growth rate of a mover district is about one percentage point higher than the growth rate of a non-mover district which had the same initial level of GDP per employee.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Diskussionsbeitrag ; No. 461
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
- Subject
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Regional convergence
distribution dynamics
mixture models
Germany
Regionale Entwicklung
Entwicklungskonvergenz
Sozialprodukt
Schätzung
Neue Bundesländer
Alte Bundesländer
Deutschland
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Vollmer, Sebastian
Holzmann, Hajo
Ketterer, Florian
Klasen, Stephan
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
- (where)
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Hannover
- (when)
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2010
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Vollmer, Sebastian
- Holzmann, Hajo
- Ketterer, Florian
- Klasen, Stephan
- Leibniz Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät
Time of origin
- 2010
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