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Intro -- Foreword -- Executive summary -- The German middle class shrank in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and has not recovered since -- Particularly the young generation and people without tertiary education find it harder to secure a place in the German middle class -- Germany's labour market ha...

1.2.4. A sizeable minority of middle-income full-time workers are in low-paid jobs, but low-paid employment has risen only for low-income workers -- 1.2.5. One-in-six middle-income workers in Germany work in jobs facing high risk of automation -- 1.2.6. Forecasts show positive employment growth for...

2.3. Trends in middle-class incomes in Germany -- 2.3.1. German middle-income households have experienced very modest income growth since the mid-1990s, and income disparities in Germany have widened -- 2.3.2. The German middle-income group has shrunk in the late-1990s and early-2000s, mostly at the...

3.2.3. Female middle-income workers have been moving up the occupational ladder -- 3.2.4. Middle-income workers have shifted out of manufacturing towards public services, which together account for more than half of all middle-income jobs -- 3.3. Middle-income workers in non-standard and low-paid wo...

4.1.3. An increasing share of people who drop out of the lower middle fall into poverty -- 4.1.4. Meanwhile, upward mobility into the middle-income group has declined -- 4.1.5. Income mobility patterns have become less favourable in particular for more disadvantaged labour market groups -- 4.2. Conc...

5.3.1. Creating middle-class jobs by investing in public infrastructure.