Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/79184 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2002-20
Publisher: 
Rutgers University, Department of Economics, New Brunswick, NJ
Abstract: 
This paper studies the cause of the changes, or lack of, in wage inequality in East Germany during its transition from a socialist to a market-oriented economic system. We are interested in how much of the change in the dispersion of wages can be explained by the changes in the characteristics of workers and how much can be explained by the changes in returns to characteristics of workers.
Subjects: 
characteristics effect
coefficients effect
decomposition analysis of inequality
earnings
residuals effect
JEL: 
D30
J30
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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