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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 ... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
SOEP
Classification
Income Policy, Property Policy, Wage Policy
Sociology of Economics
Economic Policy
Free Keywords
Inequality Decomposition; Gini; Stratification; German Unification; Regional Disparities; Stratification
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 555-577
Journal
Regional Studies, 42 (2008) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00343400701543181
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)