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Micro- and Macroeconomic Adjustment Processes in East Germany: Fourteenth Report

Increase in VAT Would Effect Households in Different Income Categories Roughly Equally

How Income Inequality Changed in Germany Following Reunification: An Empirical Analysis Using Decomposable Inequality Measures

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 ...

East Germany: Rising Incomes, Unchanged Inequality and the Impact of Redistributive Government 1990-92

Income Effects of Unemployment and Short-Time Work in East German Transformation Process

The Income of Socialist Elites during the Transition to Capitalism: Credible Evidence from Longitudinal East German Data

Income Distribution in East Germany in the First Five Years after the Fall of the Wall

Some Aspects of the Social Transition Processes in Hungary and East Germany: Income Inequality and Poverty

Rich and Poor: Stability or Change? West German Income Mobility 1984-93

Micro- and Macroeconomic Adjustment Processes in East Germany: Twelfth Report