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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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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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Preisunterschiede mildern Einkommensgefälle zwischen West und Ost

Goebel, Jan; Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 51/52, pp. 888-894

Unter Berücksichtigung neuer Informationen zu regionalen Preisniveaus in Deutschland fallen die realen Einkommensunterschiede zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland geringer aus als bisher berechnet. Nach Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) und den vom Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung...

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Schrumpfende Mittelschicht: Anzeichen einer dauerhaften Polarisierung der verfügbaren Einkommen?

Grabka, Markus M.; Frick, Joachim R. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 10, pp. 101-108

Die Schicht der Bezieher mittlerer Einkommen ist in Deutschland in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich geschrumpft. Ihr Anteil an der gesamten Bevölkerung ging von 62 Prozent im Jahr 2000 auf 54 Prozent 2006 zurück. Entsprechend gestiegen ist der Bevölkerungsanteil an den Rändern der...

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Niedrigere Arbeitslosigkeit sorgt für weniger Armutsrisiko und Ungleichheit

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 38, pp. 556-566

Nach einer mehrjährigen Phase kontinuierlich steigender Einkommensungleichheit und Einkommensarmut ist es im Zuge des konjunkturellen Aufschwungs der letzten Jahre zu einer Umkehr der Entwicklung gekommen. Nach den 2007 erhobenen Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zum Einkommen der...

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Income and wealth inequality after the financial crisis : the case of Germany

Grabka, Markus M. - 2015

(Growing unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, Paris 2008; Divided we stand-Why inequality keeps rising …

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Inequality in Germany : decrease in gap for gross hourly wages since 2014, but monthly and annual wages remain on plateau

Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 9, pp. 83-92

Despite the booming German labor market, wage inequality is still a relevant issue. In the present study, the authors report on the changes in wages and their distribution between 1992 and 2016. In addition to real contractual gross hourly wages, we closely examined gross monthly and annual...

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - 2007

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...

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