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Venue address: ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management, R. Francesinhas 21, 1200-675 Lisboa, Portugal
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 17th Sept 2026, 11:40:18am WEST
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C01: Inequality and Redistribution through the Lens of DINA Location: Room 101 (Francesinhas 1) | |
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When Capitalism Takes Over Socialism: The Lasting Economic Divide Between East And West Germany 1: Uni Leipzig; 2: IWH, Germany; 3: SVR In this paper, we investigate the economic divide between East and West German residents along the regional income and wealth distributions employing the Distributional National Accounts method, which aligns microdata with national accounts. We find that East German residents still earn and own a fraction of their West German counterparts. The gap widens towards the top of the distribution due to East Germans’ lower business income and wealth. Investigating the causes, we find that reunification boosted West German top incomes. We link this to the privatization process of the 1990s in which pre-dominantly top West German investors acquired formerly state-owned East German capital and received higher returns on their investment. Persistent characteristics of businesses owned by either East or West Germans, such as the number of employees, firm structure and legal form, explain a rising share of the persistent productivity gap.
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