Transformation tables for administrative borders in Germany
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Social Distress and Economic Integration
Walter Hyll, Lutz Schneider
IWH Discussion Papers,
No. 21,
2016
Abstract
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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