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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 ... mehr
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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Schätzung; Bruttoinlandsprodukt; Wirtschaftswachstum; neue Bundesländer; Einkommensverteilung; regionale Entwicklung
Klassifikation
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Volkswirtschaftslehre
Freie Schlagwörter
Regional economic growth; Germany; convergence clubs; density estimation; modality tests
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
19 S.
Zeitschriftentitel
Applied Economics (2009)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840802600178
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)