Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany using a Gini Decomposition Approach

Abstract: 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 within-group components as well as an overlapping index for the different sup-populations. 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

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch
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Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Regional Studies ; 42 (2008) 4 ; 555-577

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Wirtschaft

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Mannheim
(when)
2008
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DOI
10.1080/00343400701543181
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-133302
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Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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