Germany’s economic and social policy for the past 60 years. However, Germany is increasingly failing to achieve this objective …. Germany is a country of enormous inequality - income, wealth and opportunities are distributed more unequally in Germany than … in almost any other industrialised country. This inequality imposes huge economic costs for Germany, as evidenced by …

Zentrale verteilungspolitische Indikatoren in Deutschland haben sich seit dem Jahr 2005 wieder normalisiert oder sogar …Central distributional indicators in Germany have re-normalized since the year 2005 or even improved structurally … expanded rapidly, and regional funding in Eastern Germany should be concentrated on regions with sub-average living conditions. …

populism. We re-examine this hypothesis by analyzing the rise of populism in Germany. Our results suggest that the high vote …

erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …