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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany using a Gini Decomposition Approach
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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 ... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
SOEP
Klassifikation
Einkommenspolitik, Lohnpolitik, Tarifpolitik, Vermögenspolitik
Wirtschaftssoziologie
Wirtschaftspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
Inequality Decomposition; Gini; Stratification; German Unification; Regional Disparities; Stratification
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2008
Seitenangabe
S. 555-577
Zeitschriftentitel
Regional Studies, 42 (2008) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701543181
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)