Whereas US-Americans are not very concerned about their large income inequalities, Germans view considerably smaller differences much more critically. This is not surprising given that Europeans tend to be considerably more pessimistic about how equal their societies actually are.
Judith Niehues / Maximilian Stockhausen IW-Report No. 49 17. December 2024
IW Distribution Report 2024: Current trends and challenges for distribution policy
The coronavirus pandemic, the energy price crisis and the associated high inflation rates have left their marks. The fall in real wages up to the beginning of 2023 has offset some of the real wage growth of previous years: on average for 2023, the real wage ...
Thomas Obst / Maximilian Stockhausen IW-Analyse No. 155 9. January 2024
A Macroeconomic Analysis of Wage-Price Spirals
The subject of this Analysis is the forms that wage-price spirals can take and how they influence macroeconomic stability and inflationary trends in Germany.
Thomas Obst / Maximilian Stockhausen IW
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