Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by … 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the … lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has …

immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period …. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting … as well. Disposable income inequality and the low-income rate are stagnating, but the trends differ depending on …

children. Food bank users also tend to be in poor health. As expected, they also have a below average net household income and … accordingly, over two thirds of them are at risk of poverty. The structural causes of poverty must be addressed to ensure that …

Both wages and needs-adjusted household income increased by ten percent between 2013 and 2018, benefiting all income … time, the low-wage sector shrank by two percentage points. Household income inequality, in contrast, has hardly changed for … many years and the low-income rate is stagnating. However, the share of people in Germany who are affected by severe …