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  • DIW Weekly Report 17/18 / 2020

    Real Incomes Increasing, Low-Income Rate Decreasing in Individual Age Groups

    The number of employed persons in Germany has grown by over five million since 2000, in part due to an increase in immigration. This development is reflected in private household income, which has increased by 12 percent over the same period. Since 2013, all income groups have been benefiting from this increase and in 2015, the lowest income decile began benefiting as well. Disposable income inequality ...

    2020| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
  • DIW Weekly Report 21 / 2018

    Income Distribution in Germany: Real Income on the Rise since 1991 but More People with Low Incomes

    Between 1991 and 2015, the real disposable, needs-adjusted income of persons in private households in Germany rose by 15 percent on average. The majority of the population has benefited from the growth in real income, but the groups at the lower end of the income distribution have not. Inequality in both market and disposable needs-adjusted household income has remained high. These are the findings ...

    2018| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
  • Weekly Report 26 / 2010

    Income Polarisation in Germany Is Rising

    Income disparities between poorer and richer households in Germany have been widening since reunification. Although this income polarisation is reduced during economically favourable periods by strong growth in employment, once the good times are over, it rises all the faster. The longer-term trend not only shows that the number of poorer households is steadily increasing, but also that on average ...

    2010| Jan Goebel, Martin Gornig, Hartmut Häußermann
  • Weekly Report 10 / 2005

    Growth in Unemployment Raises Poverty Rates: Most Low-Wage Earnings Constitute Supplement to Primary Household Income

    Inequality with respect to personal earned income has increased in recent years. This trend has gone hand in hand with changes in both the employment constellations of households and the labor market activity of individuals (e.g. through 'minijobs'). In particular, the years since 2000 have seen a rise in the share of households with no market income because their members are either registered or hidden ...

    2005| Jan Goebel, Peter Krause, Jürgen Schupp
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 5 / 2017

    Real Income Rose Significantly between 1991 and 2014 on Average – First Indication of Return to Increased Income Inequality

    The real disposable income of private households in Germany, accounting for inflation, rose by 12 percent between 1991 and 2014. This is what the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has shown. However, the trends varied greatly depending on income group. While the middle income segment rose by more than eight percent, the highest income segment increased by up to 26 percent. ...

    2017| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 18 / 2016

    Shrinking Share of Middle-Income Group in Germany and the US

    According to calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, the proportion of middle-income group in Germany fell by more than five percentage points from 1991 to 2013, taking it to 61 percent. Germany is not the only country to have experienced such a downturn, however. Analyses of the situation in the US indicate a similar decline. To the middle-income group belong individuals in households ...

    2016| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 25 / 2015

    Income Inequality Remains High in Germany: Young Singles and Career Entrants Increasingly at Risk of Poverty

    According to calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, average disposable household income rose by five percent in real terms between 2000 and 2012. Only the highest earners have benefited from this development. While real income in the top ten percent rose by more than 15 percent, the earnings of the middle income groups stagnated, and even fell in the lower income groups. As a ...

    2015| Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 1 / 2014

    Reduction in Income Inequality Faltering

    Inequality of disposable incomes in Germany has decreased slightly since its peak in 2005. However, this trend did not continue in 2011. The most important reasons for this were the inequality in market incomes, including capital incomes, which had increased again. Besides this finding, the updated analyses of personal income distribution based on the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) show that the ...

    2014| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel
  • DIW Economic Bulletin 12 / 2012

    Has Income Inequality Spiked in Germany?

    New analyses of personal income distribution in Germany, based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (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, income inequality decreased in both western and eastern Germany. However, the latter showed a further spread at the lower ...

    2012| Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel, Jürgen Schupp
  • DIW aktuell ; 41 / 2020

    Vor dem Covid-19-Virus sind nicht alle Erwerbstätigen gleich

    Die Corona-Pandemie und die politischen Entscheidungen zu ihrer Eindämmung verändern derzeit die Situation vieler Erwerbstätiger in Deutschland. Viele abhängig Beschäftigte arbeiten im Homeoffice, befinden sich in Kurzarbeit, fürchten um ihren Job oder haben diesen bereits verloren. Selbständige verzeichnen Umsatz- und Gewinneinbußen und sehen sich in ihrer wirtschaftlichen Existenz bedroht. Erwerbstätige ...

    2020| Carsten Schröder, Theresa Entringer, Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka, Daniel Graeber, Hannes Kröger, Martin Kroh, Simon Kühne, Stefan Liebig, Jürgen Schupp, Johannes Seebauer, Sabine Zinn
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