In:
Richard Hauser (Ed.) ,
The Personal Distribution of Income in an International Perspective
Berlin [u.a.] : Springer
S. 176-204
| Joachim R. Frick, Felix Büchel, Peter Krause
The German economy is not only affected by unification of Germany but by a significant influx of immigrants from abroad and huge migration from East to West Germany around the date of unification. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (GSOEP) allows one to disentangle those effects by decomposition of the Theil I(0)-Index of inequality. In addition, the paper offers insights into the transition ...
In:
European Economic Review
43 (1999), 4-6, S. 867-878
| Markus M. Grabka, Johannes Schwarze, Gert G. Wagner
Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 2 / 1999
We use data from the East German sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine the incomes of privileged individuals during the transition from socialism to capitalism. The standard measure of elite status is party membership, but this measure is likely to be inaccurate. Instead we identify the upperclass by the ownership of a telephone before the fall of the Berlin Wall. We find that ...
In:
Journal of Comparative Economics
26 (1998), 2, S. 211-225
| Edward J. Bird, Joachim R. Frick, Gert G. Wagner
In:
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Immigrant Incorporation. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States
Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : JAI Press
S. 35-46
| Gert G. Wagner, Felix Büchel, John P. Haisken-DeNew, C. Katharina Spiess
In:
Hermann Kurthen, Jürgen Fijalkowski, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Immigrant Incorporation. Immigration, Citizenship, and the Welfare State in Germany and the United States
Stamford, Conn. [u.a.] : JAI Press
S. 159-174
| Wolfgang Voges, Joachim R. Frick, Felix Büchel
In:
Notburga Ott, Gert G. Wagner (Eds.) ,
Income Inequality and Poverty in Eastern and Western Europe
Heidelberg [u.a.] : Physica-Verl.
S. 207-233
| Joachim R. Frick, Irena Topinska, Gert G. Wagner, Klaus Müller