Germany - Income inequality revisited - December 31, 2017

Economist Thomas Piketty released a study on wage equality across the globe. His team found wages in Germany were as unequal as before the First World War. The top 10 percent earn 40 percent of overall income, the study found. This proportion has been growing since the middle of the 1990s, according to the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), which studied the German data. The bottom 50 percent have lost out significantly in recent years in terms of their cut of the overall income. In the 1960s they earned a third of the total, now that has dropped to 17 percent.

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