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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 employment forms and the elimination of incentives to take marginal, part-time jobs are the keys to strengthening the middle-income groups in Germany.
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Bosch, G., Kalina, T. The Erosion of the German Middle Class. Intereconomics 51, 73–77 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-016-0580-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-016-0580-4