This article describes the development of the needs-weighted net household income of persons in private households in … particular, the share of households that spend more than 30 % of their household net income on loan repayments has halved over …

The distribution of income and wealth in Germany is assessed quite differently. Depending on the indicators, the sample … more unequally among younger income earners than among older ones. The importance of wealth should not be underestimated in …

Using detailed micro-data, this paper documents that households with lower income risk (and higher income levels …) exhibit a higher Marginal Propensity to Consume (MPC) in response to transitory income shocks, all else being equal. This … designed to account for the empirically observed negative correlation between income levels and income risk. This interaction …

-time workers) are over-represented. Overall, the income of the majority of solo self-employed is similar to the income of wage …

This paper summarises some of the key findings and policy recommendations of the latest OECD report on income … employment on the distribution of income and the distribution of wealth. Key policy recommendations derived from these findings …

, broadly based. The economic basis for this middle class was good pay and relatively low income differentiation, which was the …-class prosperity and security has been crumbling. In the primary distribution, the share of households in the middle-income groups fell … keys to strengthening the middle-income groups in Germany. …