  Assuming 3-nu mixing, neutrino oscillation explanation of the solar and
atmospheric neutrino data and of the first KamLAND results, massive Majorana
neutrinos and neutrinoless double-beta decay generated only by the (V-A)
charged current weak interaction via the exchange of the three Majorana
neutrinos, we analyze in detail the possibility of determining the type of the
neutrino mass spectrum by measuring of the effective Majorana mass |<m>| in
neutrinoless double-beta decay. The three possible types of neutrino mass
spectrum are considered: i) normal hierarchical (NH), m1 << m2 << m3, ii)
inverted hierarchical (IH), m1 << m2 \simeq m3, and iii) quasi-degenerate (QD),
m1 \simeq m2 \simeq m3 \geq 0.20 eV. The uncertainty in the measured value of
|<m>| due to the imprecise knowledge of the relevant nuclear matrix elements is
taken into account in the analysis. We derive the ranges of values of tan^2
theta_\odot, theta_\odot being the mixing angle which controls the solar
neutrino oscillations, and of the nuclear matrix element uncertainty factor,
for which the measurement of |<m>| would allow one to discriminate between the
NH and IH, NH and QD and IH and QD spectra.
