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 … incomes in Germany are distributed much more unequally than net incomes. The tax and transfer system provides for an alignment …

of other studies that show a sharp increase in wage inequality in Germany from the mid-1990s until 2010. The increase can …

Germany's income distribution (before taxes and transfers) is more unequal than the OECD average–and only after …

period, the middle class in Germany and Austria has changed in terms of education, family constellations and age. In both …We examine the changes and evolution of the middle class in Austria and Germany over the past 20 years. During that … the middle class appears to be stable and is slightly higher than in Germany. During the COVID-19 crisis, discretionary …

The observation of the remarkably stable development of inequality indicators in Germany in the relevant period … inequality. In Germany, AfD supporters are also rather critical of a (flat-rate) expansion of redistribution policies. Their view …

The access and use of administrative health data in Germany is limited by several factors. Due to the large number and … of individual administrative data, we propose several measures to improve access to health data in Germany. …-transparent manner. Linkage of health data with other data sources is hardly possible for legal and logistic reasons. These limitations …

This article describes the development of the needs-weighted net household income of persons in private households in … Germany since the year 2000. It also focuses on the presentation of the prevalence and amount of credit debts of private … households. The central result is that the share of repayments for loans in Germany has been declining overall since 2000. In …

insurance funds and decrease their market power. Due to this reform and the well-known relationship between income and health …, health insurances funds will increase their adverse competition for higher income households. …Since 2011 German health insurance funds have had to raise additional lump-sum contributions from members in case of …