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| dc.contributor.author | | Beblo, Miriam | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Collier, Irwin L. | | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | | Knaus, Thomas | | en_US |
| dc.coverage.temporal | | 1991-1998 | | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | | 2009-02-16T14:56:18Z | | - |
| dc.date.available | | 2009-02-16T14:56:18Z | | - |
| dc.date.issued | | 2001 | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24450 | | - |
| dc.description.abstract | | This paper presents estimates of the unification bonus for East Germans over the period 1991 to 1998. The unification bonus is defined as the discounted value of the difference between a person?s actual income and his or her counterfactual real income stream forecast for a hypothetical continuation of economic life in a static GDR. The two main issues tackled in this study are the construction of valid deflators for a comparison of real incomes during the transition from a centralized to a market economy and the estimation of plausible counterfactual income streams. Our central result is that 19 percent of East Germans received a present value malus and so can be regarded as unification losers but that the aggregate bonus is ten times the size of the aggregate malus of the sample. | | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | | eng | | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) Mannheim | | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | | ZEW Discussion Papers 01-29 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D3 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | D1 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.jel | | P2 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.ddc | | 330 | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | Real income comparison | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | income distribution and mobility | | en_US |
| dc.subject.keyword | | economies in transition | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Kaufkraft | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lebensstandard | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Einkommensverteilung | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Systemvergleich | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Neue Bundesländer | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | DDR | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Nationale Einheit | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Lebensstandard | | en_US |
| dc.subject.stw | | Deutschland | | en_US |
| dc.title | | The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany | | en_US |
| dc.type | | Working Paper | | en_US |
| dc.identifier.ppn | | 330555952 | | en_US |
| dc.rights | | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | | - |
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