examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

We analyze the distribution and concentration of market incomes in Germany in the period 1992 to 2001 on the basis of … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

The 1990s and 2000s were a gloomy period for Germany's working class, hit by mass unemployment, welfare retrenchment … and wage stagnation. We examine whether the growing economic disparity between the top and the bottom of Germany's class … life satisfaction and whether, over the last decades, this class gradient increased in Germany, relative to the comparison …