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Has Income Inequality Spiked in Germany?

Press Release of October 25, 2012

New analyses of personal income distribution in Germany, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), show that real market income in private households rose significantly from 2005 to 2010. An increase in real disposable income was also observed. At the same time, the disparity in income distribution decreased in both western and eastern Germany. However, the latter showed a further spread at the lower end of disposable income distribution. In the course of this development, the poverty risk in western Germany fell slightly from 2009 to 2010, while it remained unchanged in the eastern part of the country.

 

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Wochenbericht 43/2012 (PDF, 1.05 MB)

O-Ton von Markus M. Grabka
Leichter Rückgang der Einkommensungleichheit in Westdeutschland - Fünf Fragen an Markus Grabka

Kontakt: Markus M. Grabka, 030/89789-339

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