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Income Polarisation, Rising Mobility Costs and Green Transport: Contradictory Developments in Germany’s Automotive Market

In: Global Automobile Demand

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  • Antje Blöcker
  • Julia Hildermeier

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In the last 10 years, the gap between the rich and the poor in Germany has widened. Incomes polarise to the margins, and the middle-income group gets smaller. Increasing income inequality has important influence on the population’s real and perceived quality of life and participation in society at large. Since 2001, at the mid-term of each electoral period, the German government issues a report on the living conditions of the poor and rich. The forth and most recent report, issued in January 2013, confirmed existing trends: a wider distribution of incomes among the rich and the poor; increasing low-income jobs, as more than 4 million people earn less than 7 Euro pre-tax an hour; a higher risk of poverty in general. Poor people thus tend to remain in the weakest income group (Bundesregierung, 2013). This alarming finding has been a highly political issue, as the government tried to conceal its significance in an earlier version of the report, published in 2012 (Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 28 November 2012).

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  • Antje Blöcker & Julia Hildermeier, 2015. "Income Polarisation, Rising Mobility Costs and Green Transport: Contradictory Developments in Germany’s Automotive Market," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Bruno Jetin (ed.), Global Automobile Demand, chapter 4, pages 105-126, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-51614-5_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137516145_5
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