01606pab a2200193 454500008004000000100001800040245012900058260000900187300001500196362000900211520093400220650004701154650001501201650002201216773003901238909001101277999001901288952010501307180718b2017   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aArends, Helge  aEqual living conditions vs. cultural sovereignty? federalism reform, educational poverty and spatial inequalities in Germany  c2017  ap.673-706.  aFall  aBy focusing on the relevance of Germany's first fiscal federalism reform of 2005 for the education sector, I investigate how two key constitutional principles, namely the principle of equal living conditions across regions and the principle of cultural sovereignty of the states, relate to each other. In a first step, I investigate the determinants of the newly decentralized competences to determine teachers' salaries and the impact on educational poverty. In a second step, I discuss whether these new sub-central competences have led to an increase in spatial educational inequalities. The results indicate that federal states make use of the new competences in a rational manner. Higher teacher pay, in turn, has a significant and conducive effect on the outcome of the federal states' education sectors. There is some evidence that this has led to increasing spatial inequalities; however, the evidence is not unambiguous.  aIntergovernment fiscal relations - Germany  aFederalism  aLiving conditions  aPublius: The Journal of Federalism  a116083  c116077d116077  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 47, Issue no: 4pAR116543r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR