Vor allem die Arbeitgeberseite beklagt schon länger, dass offene Stellen für Fachkräfte häufig nicht besetzt werden können. Tatsächlich war die Versorgung mit gut ausgebildeten Arbeitskräften bislang ein deutscher Standortvorteil. Fraglich ist jedoch, ob bei einer genauen Abgrenzung des...

Since the mid-1990s, income inequality has increased more sharply in Germany than in many other European countries, as the economic basis of middle-class prosperity and security has crumbled. The new minimum wage, an increase in coverage by collective agreements, the re-regulation of atypical...

From the end of the Second World War onwards, a middle class emerged in Germany that was, by international standards, broadly based. The economic basis for this middle class was good pay and relatively low income differentiation, which was the result of collective agreement on a high coverage...