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Drifting together or falling apart? The empirics of regional economic growth in post-unification Germany

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Funke, Michael; Curran, Declan; Colavecchio, Roberta

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Abstract The objective of this paper is to address the question of convergence across German districts in the first decade after German unification by drawing out and emphasising some stylised facts of regional per capita income dynamics. We achieve this by employing non-parametric techniques which focus on the evolution of the entire cross-sectional income distribution. In particular, we follow a distributional approach to convergence based on kernel density estimation and implement a number of tests to establish the statistical significance of our findings. This paper finds that the relative income distribution appears to be stratifying into a trimodal/ bimodal distribution.
Keywords regional development; gross domestic product; estimation; Federal Republic of Germany; New Federal States; economic growth; income distribution
Classification Political Economy; Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Free Keywords Regional economic growth; Germany; convergence clubs; density estimation; modality tests
Document language English
Publication Year 2009
Page/Pages 19 p.
Journal Applied Economics (2009)
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00036840802600178
Status Postprint; reviewed
Licence PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)
Document Type journal article
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