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
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
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
Bochum:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum,
1997,
14 Bl.
(Diskussionspapiere aus der Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaft ; 97-07)
| Gert G. Wagner, Felix Büchel, John P. Haisken-DeNew, C. Katharina Spieß