Prices for energy and food are currently rising extraordinarily sharply. Households with low net incomes in particular are being burdened by the price increases, in some cases dramatically. According to current inflation forecasts, price increases for the lowest-income ten percent would mean a...

In den Spitzengremien der großen Unternehmen bestehen trotz des Deutschen Corporate Governance Codex weiterhin Chancenungleichheiten zwischen den Geschlechtern. In den Vorständen der größten privaten Unternehmen in Deutschland herrscht eine männliche Monokultur. Ursachen für diese starke...

This article describes the development of the needs-weighted net household income of persons in private households in Germany since the year 2000. It also focuses on the presentation of the prevalence and amount of credit debts of private households. The central result is that the share of...