How unification and immigration affected the German income distribution

European Economic Review

Volumn 43, Issue 4-6, 1999, Pages 867-878

  Grabka, Markus M ^a   Schwarze, Johannes ^a,b   Wagner, Gert G ^a,c,d,e  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

^d CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^e IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Decomposable inequality measure; Economic impact of immigration; Economics of transition

Indexed keywords

IMMIGRATION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POLITICAL CHANGE; TRANSITIONAL ECONOMY;

GERMANY;

EID: 0032779528     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2921(98)00100-7     Document Type: Article

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