The affordability of housing has become a major topic of discussion in Germany among both social scientists and the …

of the two) in Germany. Further, we investigate age‐wealth‐profiles and differences between East and West Germany. …

-) indebtedness which relate household income and debt services to different concepts of subsistence levels, this paper investigates … whether severe household indebtedness is driven by trigger events such as unemployment, childbirth, divorce, or the death of … are likely to cause severe household indebtedness. Unemployment also worsens the relative debt situation mainly due to the …

without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data including …

paper to assess how the ?nancial situation of families living in Germany has developed since the early 1990s. Among other …

location of the household with block-level precision. At DIW Berlin, this additional variable is fed into a special computer …

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …