Electronic Resource
Oxford, UK
:
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Review of income and wealth
42 (1996), S. 0
ISSN:
1475-4991
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Economics
Notes:
This paper analyzes how inequality in Before and After Government income has changed in Germany since reunification using the 1990 through 1992 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. A Theil decomposable inequality index is used to measure inequality in Germany and in its eastern and western states. Massive public transfers from west to east have narrowed the east-west income gap, substantially offset the rise in income inequality from private sources, and lowered overall inequality in the western states. The net result of this policy has been a drop in After Government income inequality in Germany between 1990 and 1992.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.1996.tb00142.x
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