It is obvious that the German economy exhibits a significant decline in economic growth during the last two decades … only one reason of this decline. In this study we follow the new growth theory and develop and com-pare indicators for the … lower performance of German R&D and could, therefore, possibly explain the decline of the German growth trend. …

In this article, I analyze the changes in wage inequality in the eastern region, western region and reunified Germany a … the characteristics effect, coefficient effect and residual effect contributed to the increasing levels of wage inequality … in Germany. On the other hand, the relative stability in wage inequality during the sub-period 2002-2006 was caused by …

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … calculations are correlated with the macroeconomic variables economic growth, inflation, and general unemployment. At the peak of … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …

, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use …