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Poor, unemployed, and politically inactive?

Kroh, Martin; Könnecke, Christian - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 1, pp. 3-14

People with low incomes and job seekers are less interested and active in politics than people above the at-risk-of-poverty … inequality of political participation. Data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has followed … political participation only as a result of losing their job, nor do those affected by poverty do so due to loss of income …

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Development of top incomes in Germany since 2001

Bartels, Charlotte; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 1/2, pp. 3-8

What share of total income in Germany is owned by the country's top income earners and how has this share developed over the past decade? Answers to these questions can be found both in representative survey data such as the longitudinal Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and in administrative...

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Shrinking share of middle-income group in Germany and the US

Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan; Schröder, Carsten; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 18, pp. 199-210

According to calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, the proportion of middle-income group in Germany fell by six percentage points from 1991 to 2013, taking it to 54 percent. Germany is not the only country to have experienced such a downturn, however. Analyses of the...

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Minimum wage not yet for everyone: On the compensation of eligible workers before and after the minimum wage reform from the perspective of employees

Burauel, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Fedorets, Alexandra; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 49, pp. 509-522

Calculations based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) show that after the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in January 2015, the wage growth of eligible employees with low wages accelerated significantly. Before the reform, the nominal growth in contractual hourly...

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Real income rose significantly between 1991 and 2014 on average: First indication of return to increased income inequality

Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 7 (2017) 5, pp. 47-57

inequality has increased overall, especially in the first half of the 1990s, in the period from 1999 to 2005, and after 2009. It … stagnated or even decreased in the interim periods. The proportion of people at risk of poverty has recently become greater … again. Gainful employment still provides the most effective protection against income poverty, but more and more employed …

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Income inequality remains high in Germany: Young singles and career entrants increasingly at risk of poverty

Goebel, Jan; Grabka, Markus M.; Schröder, Carsten - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 5 (2015) 25, pp. 325-339

in the lower income groups. As a result, the inequality of disposable household income in Germany climbed sharply up … until 2005 and has remained at the same high level ever since. At the same time, the risk of poverty in Germany increased … significantly between 2000 and 2009, and is currently at approximately 14 percent. The risk of poverty has risen significantly for …

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