Artikel

How Unification and Immigration Affected the German Income Distribution

The German economy is not only affected by unification of Germany but by a significant influx of immigrants from abroad and huge migration from East to West Germany around the date of unification. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) allows one to disentangle those effects by decomposition of the Theil I(0)-Index of inequality. In addition, the paper offers insights into the transition from a socalist economy into a market oriented one.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: European Economic Review ; ISSN: 0014-2921 ; Volume: 43 ; Year: 1999 ; Issue: 4–6 ; Pages: 867-878 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Classification
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Subject
Decomposable inequality measure
Economics of transition
Economic impact of immigration
Einkommensverteilung
Systemtransformation
Migranten

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Grabka, Markus M.
Schwarze, Johannes
Wagner, Gert G.
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Elsevier
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
(where)
Amsterdam
(when)
1999-04

DOI
doi:10.1016/S0014-2921(98)00100-7
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Associated

  • Grabka, Markus M.
  • Schwarze, Johannes
  • Wagner, Gert G.
  • Elsevier
  • ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

Time of origin

  • 1999-04

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