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...

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...

Almost 25 years after the fall of the Wall and far more eastern Germans are unhappy with their income than western Germans. In 2013, around 44 percent of employed eastern Germans rated their earnings as unfair compared with approximately one third in western Germany. Although the east-west gap...

Almost twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, far more eastern Germans are unhappy with their income than western Germans. In 2013, around 44 percent of employed eastern Germans rated their earnings as unjust compared with approximately one-third in western Germany. Although the...

The presence of refugees in Germany and the challenges their integration poses have preoccupied the public for the past two years. According to the latest data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), many more people in Germany were concerned about migration and xenophobia last year than in 2013....

Die Präsenz Geflüchteter in Deutschland sowie die Herausforderungen ihrer Integration beschäftigen die Öffentlichkeit seit nunmehr zwei Jahren. Neuesten Zahlen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zufolge machten sich im vergangenen Jahr weitaus mehr Menschen in Deutschland Sorgen aufgrund...

Der Zustrom von Flüchtlingen nach Deutschland bestimmt seit Monaten die öffentliche Debatte. Nach der im Januar dieses Jahres durchgeführten Umfrage "Stimmungsbarometer zu Flüchtlingen in Deutschland" sieht etwas weniger als ein Drittel der Erwachsenen in Deutschland in der...

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...

Die Gruppe der Bezieher eines mittleren Einkommens ist in Deutschland von 1991 bis 2013 um sechs Prozentpunkte auf 54 Prozent zurückgegangen. Das zeigen Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Damit steht Deutschland nicht allein, denn vergleichbare Analysen für die USA...

Since the beginning of 2016, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study has been conducting a monthly survey of German attitudes, expectations, and fears concerning migration. The third wave of the survey,-the Barometer of Public Opinion on Refugees in Germany (Stimmungsbarometer zu Geflüchteten in...