Inequality trends for Germany in the last two decades
Subtitle: a tale of two countries
By: Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln, Dirk Krueger, Mathias Sommer.
Contributors: Krueger, Dirk.; Sommer-Mathis, Andrea.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15059; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15059.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years.  We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German unification (which happened politically in 1990 and in our data in 1991), and then trended upwards for wages and market incomes, especially after about 1998.  Disposable income and consumption, on the other hand, display only a modest increase in inequality over the same period.  These trends occured against the backdrop of lower trend growth of earnings, incomes and consumption in the 1990s relative to the 1980s.  In the second part of the paper we further analyze the differences between East and West Germans in terms of the evolution of levels and inequality of wages, income, and consumption"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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