Social distress and economic integration / Walter Hyll, Lutz Schneider
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861918258
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urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:2-57823
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Halle (Saale), Germany : Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), June 2016
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1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten, 0,78 MB)
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eng
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We analyze whether social distress from income comparisons affects attitudes towards the integration of economies. Using Germany’s division as natural experiment, we find that East Germans’ feelings of relative deprivation with respect to better-off West Germans led to significantly more support for the upcoming German re-unification.
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IWH-Diskussionspapiere ; no. 21/2016 ppn:837399270