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Measuring Regional Inequality by Internet Car Price Advertisements: Evidence for Germany

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  • Konstantin A. Kholodilin
  • Boriss Siliverstovs

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We suggest to use Internet car sale price advertisements for measuring economic inequality between and within German regions. Our estimates of regional income levels and Gini indices based on advertisements are highly, positively correlated with the official figures. This implies that the observed car prices can serve as a reasonably good proxy for income levels. In contrast to the traditional measures, our data can be fast and inexpensively retrieved from the web, and more importantly allow to estimate Gini indices at the NUTS2 level-something that never has been done before. Our approach to measuring regional inequality is a useful alternative source of information that could complement officially available measures.

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Paper provided by DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research in its series Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin with number 1036.

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Length: 15 p.
Date of creation: 2010
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Publication status: Published in: Economics Letters 116 (2012), 3, 414-417
Handle: RePEc:diw:diwwpp:dp1036

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Keywords: Car price advertisements; economic inequality; German NUTS1 and NUTS regions; Gini index; Internet;

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  1. Francesco D’Amuri & Juri Marcucci, 2010. "“Google it!”Forecasting the US Unemployment Rate with a Google Job Search index," Working Papers 2010.31, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
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  1. Vyacheslav Dombrovsky & Konstantin A. Kholodilin & Boriss Siliverstovs, 2011. "Using Personal Car Register for Measuring Economic Inequality in Countries with a Large Share of Shadow Economy: Evidence for Latvia," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 1153, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research.

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