Measuring the Effects of Socio-Economic Variables on the Income Distribution: An Application to the East German Transition Process
提出一种简化的半参数方法，通过重新加权原始人口来构建假设收入分布，并应用于分析1990年两德统一后东德失业上升、女性劳动参与下降和收入结构扩大对收入不平等加剧的贡献。
This paper develops a discrete variant of the semiparametric methodology of DiNardo, Fortin, and Lemieux (1996) (DFL) to measure the effects of socio-economic variables on the income distribution. Although the proposed method is also based on the calculation of hypothetical income distributions by reweighting the original population, it is much easier to implement. The framework is applied to examine the distributional effects of rising unemployment, decreasing female labor market participation, and widening income structure in East Germany following the reunification with West Germany in 1990. The empirical results suggest that both these tendencies contributed considerably to the recent increase in income inequality in East Germany. 2000 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology