کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
969027 1479467 2011 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Still different after all these years: Solidarity behavior in East and West Germany
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
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Still different after all these years: Solidarity behavior in East and West Germany
چکیده انگلیسی

Using data from laboratory experiments, we find that East Germans show consistently less solidarity than West Germans; there has been no convergence in the 20 years after the reunification. While it has recently been estimated that political values converge 20 to 40 years after the reunification (Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln, 2007), we conclude from our findings that social behavior changes more slowly than political values. We hypothesize that this is due to complementarities involved in individual social behavior and the necessity to coordinate on social norms on the society level.


► Using data from laboratory experiments, we find that East Germans show consistently less solidarity than West Germans.
► There has been no convergence in the 20 years after the reunification.
► We conclude from our findings that social behavior changes more slowly than political values.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Public Economics - Volume 95, Issues 11–12, December 2011, Pages 1373–1376
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