Regional Income Inequality in Germany

Immo Frieden, Andreas Peichl and Paul Schüle

EconPol Forum, 2023, vol. 24, issue 02, 50-55

Abstract: We characterize regional inequality in gross incomes at the municipality level in Germany using data from administrative tax returns for the period 1998-2016 More unequal municipalities are more likely to be urban and located in West Germany Decomposing the increase in inequality in the last two decades into a between and within municipality component, we find that the increase was entirely driven by growing inequality within municipalities Thirty years after reunification, Germany is a country with rather modest interregional inequalities but a growing level of intraregional inequality

Date: 2023
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