Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
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Frick J. R. and Goebel J. Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach, Regional Studies. Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification. This paper applies a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the Gini index that yields the obligatory between- and within-group components as well as an ‘overlapping’ index for the different sub-populations. It is found 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. Frick J. R. et Goebel J. Les tranches de revenu regional dans l'Allemagne unifiee employant une decompositi...
- Institute for the Study of Labor Germany
- Technical University of Berlin Germany
- Technical University of Berlin Germany
- German Institute for Economic Research Germany
- Leibniz Association Germany
Gini-Koeffizient, Economics, German Unification, Sociology of Economics, Sociology & anthropology, stratification, Einkommenspolitik, Lohnpolitik, Tarifpolitik, Vermögenspolitik, inequality decomposition, Regional Disparities, Deutschland, D31, Social sciences, sociology, anthropology, German unification, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, ddc:330, Inequality Decomposition, regional disparities, Wirtschaft, SOEP, Regionale Einkommensverteilung, Neue Bundesländer, Soziologie, Anthropologie, Wirtschaftspolitik, Gini, C81, Inequality Decomposition; Gini; Stratification; German Unification; Regional Disparities; Stratification, Economic Policy, Inequality Decomposition; Gini; Stratification; German Unification; Regional Disparities; SOEP., Dekompositionsverfahren, Stratification, D63, Wirtschaftssoziologie, Inequality decomposition; Gini; Stratification; German unification; Regional disparities; SOEP, Alte Bundesländer, Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy, jel: jel:C81, jel: jel:D63, jel: jel:D31, ddc: ddc:330, ddc: ddc:300, ddc: ddc:301
Gini-Koeffizient, Economics, German Unification, Sociology of Economics, Sociology & anthropology, stratification, Einkommenspolitik, Lohnpolitik, Tarifpolitik, Vermögenspolitik, inequality decomposition, Regional Disparities, Deutschland, D31, Social sciences, sociology, anthropology, German unification, Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, ddc:330, Inequality Decomposition, regional disparities, Wirtschaft, SOEP, Regionale Einkommensverteilung, Neue Bundesländer, Soziologie, Anthropologie, Wirtschaftspolitik, Gini, C81, Inequality Decomposition; Gini; Stratification; German Unification; Regional Disparities; Stratification, Economic Policy, Inequality Decomposition; Gini; Stratification; German Unification; Regional Disparities; SOEP., Dekompositionsverfahren, Stratification, D63, Wirtschaftssoziologie, Inequality decomposition; Gini; Stratification; German unification; Regional disparities; SOEP, Alte Bundesländer, Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy, jel: jel:C81, jel: jel:D63, jel: jel:D31, ddc: ddc:330, ddc: ddc:300, ddc: ddc:301
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