Since the mid-1990s, income inequality has increased more sharply in Germany than in many other European countries, as the economic basis of middle-class prosperity and security has crumbled. The new minimum wage, an increase in coverage by collective agreements, the re-regulation of atypical...

From the end of the Second World War onwards, a middle class emerged in Germany that was, by international standards, broadly based. The economic basis for this middle class was good pay and relatively low income differentiation, which was the result of collective agreement on a high coverage...

In der öffentlichen Debatte herrscht die Einschätzung vor, dass die Ungleichheit der Einkommen und des Vermögens in Deutschland und in Europa in den letzten Jahren stark zugenommen hat. Geht die Schere zwischen Arm und Reich wirklich weiter auseinander, oder ist die wachsende Ungleichheit ein...

From the end of the Second World War onwards, a middle class emerged in Germany that was, by international standards, broadly based. The economic basis for this middle class was good pay and relatively low income differentiation, which was the result of collective agreement on a high coverage...