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Income distribution in Germany : real income on the rise since 1991 but more people with low incomes
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 21, pp. 181-190
remained high. These are the findings of the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. The risk-of-poverty … rate was 16.8 percent in 2015, in comparison to around 11 percent in the mid-1990s. The risk-of-poverty rate among the … migration background - those who were born in a foreign country and then migrated to Germany. The increase in the risk-of-poverty …
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Income inequality in Germany stagnating over the long term, but decreasing slightly during the coronavirus pandemic
Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 17/18, pp. 125-133
Both wages and needs-adjusted household income increased by ten percent between 2013 and 2018, benefiting all income groups. Wage inequality has been declining for many years and has now again reached the level of the early 2000s. At the same time, the low-wage sector shrank by two percentage...
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Real incomes increasing, low-income rate decreasing in individual age groups
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 17/18, pp. 231-239
immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period …
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Nearly 1.1 million people in Germany use food banks, single and separated parents in particular at an above-average frequency
Grabka, Markus M.; Schupp, Jürgen - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 39, pp. 239-244
accordingly, over two thirds of them are at risk of poverty. The structural causes of poverty must be addressed to ensure that … food banks do not reach their limit. Increasing the standard rate for welfare benefits and providing targeted support …
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The Shrinking German Middle Class: Signs of Long-Term Polarization in Disposable Income?
Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: Weekly Report 4 (2008) 4, pp. 21-27
The proportion of middle income earners in Germany has shrunk significantly in recent years: from 62 percent of the total population in the year 2000 to only 54 percent in 2006. Correspondingly, the proportion of the population at the margins of the income distribution has increased as well,...
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The Shrinking German Middle Class: Signs of Long-Term Polarization in Disposable Income?
Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: Weekly Report 4 (2008) 4, pp. 21-27
The proportion of middle income earners in Germany has shrunk significantly in recent years: from 62 percent of the total population in the year 2000 to only 54 percent in 2006. Correspondingly, the proportion of the population at the margins of the income distribution has increased as well,...
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Persistently high wealth inequality in Germany
Grabka, Markus M.; Westermeier, Christian - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 6, pp. 3-15
According to current analyses based on the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the total net assets of German households in 2012 amounted to 6.3 trillion euros. Almost 28 percent of the adult population had no or even negative net wealth. On average, individual net assets in 2012 totaled over...
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Distributional effects of imputed rents in five European countries
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Smeeding, Timothy M. - In: Journal of housing economics 19 (2010) 3, pp. 167-179
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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017
We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and...
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A head-to-head comparison of augmented wealth in Germany and the United States
Bönke, Timm; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten; … - 2017
We provide levels of, compositions of, and inequalities in household augmented wealth - defined as the sum of net worth and pension wealth - for two countries: the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth: about 48% in the United States and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622210