Inequality of Educational Opportunity in East and West Germany: Convergence or Continued Differences?

Political Culture : Differences in East and West Germany

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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany

This paper studies differences in inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences between East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures. Surprisingly, however, differences in distributional norms are much smaller than differences with respect to inequality perceptions or redistributive preferences. ...

Inequality of Educational Outcome and Inequality of Educational Opportunity in the Netherlands during the 20th Century

Inequality of Educational Outcome and Inequality of Educational Opportunity in the Netherlands during the 20th Century Maarten L. Buis The influence of social background on educational attainment involves a paradox: On the one hand, it is a good thing that parents care about their children and want to help them attain the best possible educational outcome. On the other hand, it seems unfair to ...

East-West German Wage Convergence after Unification: Migration or Institutions?

One of the most remarkable economic consequences of German unification was a rise by more than 100% in DM wages paid to Eastern German workers over the period 1990-1995, despite sharply rising unemployment and persistently low labor productivity. While wage convergence is consistent with economic integration, the evidence suggests that it was substantially accelerated by the West German collect...

Convergence: obstacle or opportunity?