Arbeitspapier
Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach
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 apply this method together with a jackknife estimation of standard errors. 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. Overall, these findings are important for the political discussion with respect to a potential regional concentration of future transfers from East to West Germany.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 1891
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- Thema
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inequality decomposition
Gini
stratification
German unification
regional disparities
SOEP
Regionale Einkommensverteilung
Gini-Koeffizient
Dekompositionsverfahren
Neue Bundesländer
Alte Bundesländer
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Frick, Joachim R.
Goebel, Jan
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2005
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Frick, Joachim R.
- Goebel, Jan
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2005
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