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 …

, net household income has increased by 35 percent on average since 1995. After a long period in which the poverty risk grew …, the trend finally seems to be shifting in the other direction. Across Germany, the poverty risk has declined by 4 … to reduce the poverty risk, they should focus on children and youth, as the dropout rate has increased to 13.1 percent …