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...

Very nearly 25 years after the fall of the Wall, households in eastern Germany have average assets of 67,400 euros which is less than half of their counterparts in western Germany with average assets of 153,200 euros. In both parts of the country, real estate ownership is quantitatively the most...

Very nearly 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, households in eastern Germany have an average net worth of 67,400 euros which is less than half that of their counterparts in western Germany with an average net worth of 153,200 euros. In both parts of the country, real estate ownership is...

Im Rahmen einer nicht repräsentativen Sondererhebung wurde die Lebenssituation hochvermögender Haushalte mit mindestens einer Million Euro Geldvermögen erhoben und der Situation durchschnittlicher Haushalte aus repräsentativen Stichproben gegenübergestellt. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin,...

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...

Die verfügbaren Einkommen der privaten Haushalte in Deutschland sind von 1991 bis 2014 real, also unter Berücksichtigung der Preisentwicklung, um zwölf Prozent gestiegen. Das zeigt die vorliegende Studie, die auf Daten der Längsschnittstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) basiert. Die...

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...

Das durchschnittliche reale verfügbare Haushaltseinkommen ist nach Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) von 2000 bis 2012 um fünf Prozent gestiegen. Von dieser Entwicklung profitieren aber nur die oberen Einkommensgruppen. Während die realen Einkommen der obersten zehn...

The topic of rising income inequality does not only gain in relevance since the two prominent reports by the OECD (Growing unequal? Income Distribution and Poverty in OECD Countries, Paris 2008; Divided we stand—Why inequality keeps rising, Paris 2011) but rather since the financial crisis. So far...

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...