Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Schwengler, Barbara - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2009
"Almost twenty years after German reunification there are still huge income disparities between western and eastern regions in Germany. The main purpose of the paper is to show how social transfer payments reduce these inter-regional disparities. In a first step we examine inequalities in the...
