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Drifting together or falling apart? The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany
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Abstract The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus on ... view more
The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus on the evolution of the entire cross-sectional income distribution. In particular, we follow a distributional approach to convergence based on kernel density estimation and implement a number of tests to establish the statistical significance of our findings. This paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal/ bimodal distribution.... view less
Keywords
economic growth; income distribution; Federal Republic of Germany; regional development; gross domestic product; New Federal States; estimation
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Political Economy
Free Keywords
Regional economic growth; Germany; convergence clubs; density estimation; modality tests
Document language
English
Publication Year
2009
Page/Pages
19 p.
Journal
Applied Economics (2009)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840802600178
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)