Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/272168 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] EconPol Forum [ISSN:] 2752-1184 [Volume:] 24 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 50-55
Publisher: 
CESifo GmbH, Munich
Abstract: 
We characterize regional inequality in gross incomes at the municipality level in Germany using data from administrative tax returns for the period 1998-2016. More unequal municipalities are more likely to be urban and located in West Germany. Decomposing the increase in inequality in the last two decades into a between and within municipality component, we find that the increase was entirely driven by growing inequality within municipalities. Thirty years after reunification, Germany is a country with rather modest interregional inequalities but a growing level of intraregional inequality.
Document Type: 
Article

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